Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they could not muster a quorum, Student Assembly members last Sunday met as a committee to lend their qualified support to the changes in College governance proposed in the recently-released Dowling Committee report. Assembly members also called for the abolition of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities--a topic that the Dowling Committee touched upon without making any recommendations. The assembly members agreed to "recognize the effort and compromises that have gone into the report" and to support the proposed changes "as an improvement of the present system...
...topic of revolutions, I ask Fuentes, does he really think that fighting can solve socio-economic problems in Latin American nations? Many people have read into his works a recurring theme of the betrayal of the Mexican Revolution's ideal by a new corrupt bourgeoisie and landowners...
...national spotlight. One professor confided recently that many faculty members--though none dare say so in public for fear of being branded as racist--believe that Bok has gone through the crudest of machinations to win over vocal minority students. In fact, the professor added, it is a favorite topic of private discussions among faculty members. In such an atmosphere, Bok deserves sympathy for his difficult position and praise for his willingness to write open letters...
...considered such a moment remains to be seen. But no one who heard him will be able to claim that the country was not warned, that what he had in mind was nothing less than the most radical invocation to change in 50 years. He spoke to a single topic: his new Administration's program to curb the inflation and end the stagnation that have been crippling the U.S. economy. But in so doing he summoned his countrymen to take a historic turn: from more government to less. If he should succeed-and it is a very large...
...Year Empire." The men are a sea of blue and gray pinstripes; the women wrapped in tastefully muted tailored skirts and jackets with the ubitquitous string bow tie or large silk bow. Bits of conversation between the similarly Dressed-For-Success Exxon recruiters and the students relate to the topic at hand--but broadly, not broaching the specifics which will come later...