Word: turmoil
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...preserved his image as a proponent of moderate means of attaining racial equality in the United State. One of the main organizers of the massive civil rights march of Washington in 1963, he led the NAACP along a path of gradual but continuing struggle through 12 years of turmoil--a moderate course that earned him the derision of many more militant black leaders, as well as the steadfast opposition of segregationists. The 77-year-old Wilkins, who retired from his post as executive director of the NAACP last year, also has a background in journalism, having edited the NAACP...
During the era of political turmoil on campus a decade ago, stopping out was often a gesture of defiance. Now it is just as likely to indicate ambition. Oliver Miller, 24, a Yale senior who will be leaving for Oxford this fall as a Rhodes scholar, took off for two years in 1975 and wound up in Atlanta, where he became one of two aides on the issues staff of the fledgling Jimmy Carter presidential campaign. "It was an incredible education," he recalls, "the kind I don't think you could ever get from a textbook." Paul Albritton...
...free post-secondary education, but its policies and its budget in particular have been remarkably conservative since the P.Q. took power. Unless the party can provide a clear post-independence direction, it threatens to subject the new country's economy to the economic pressures which invariably accompany political turmoil...
...possibly decide, the issue, it will cap a six-month process used to arrive at this year's policy stance. Harvard's overall policy on South African investments, and the present system for formulating such policies, have evolved over the past several years, years that have often witnessed turmoil and turbulence over University investment decisions...
...avoiding such a conflict, Moose maintains, lies in an evenhanded approach to the transition. "Whether the transfer of power is resolved politically or militarily," he says, "will have an enormous impact on the whole region; it will determine whether we'll have a southern Africa in turmoil...