Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poland today is a far different country than it was even a year ago, and Polish experts presume that the decision to permit Baranczak's departure reflects the pattern of liberalization sparked by the country's labor unrest. Still, as Fanger noted, letting Baranczak take his message to Harvard "must have been a bitter pill for the government to swallow...
...Sophia only because she's beautiful. He believes, correctly, that she will marry him if he succeeds. But if their relationship continues on the basis of self-interest, theirs would be an eventually fading romance. In the same way, if minority education is accelerated as a pacifier of social unrest, Americans will never possess the determination which is needed to cure their curse...
Harvard officials speculated that the Polish authorities' apparent change of attitude may have come out of liberalizing efforts of labor and intellectual unrest in Poland, although Fanger noted that Baranczak, because of his extensive dissident activity, "was one of the hardest pills for [the government] to swallow...
...then, the powers that be were happy with our involvement in Vietnam, too. It took outsiders--beginning with college students--to turn the tide against that war. We must show the nation that we will make the same sacrifices again--and exact the same price of social unrest, if need be. If America's leaders did not learn their lesson in Vietnam, then the committed and concerned in this country will have to teach it to them again. Thursday's march is a beginning, and all of Harvard should be there...
...earning a Ph.D. in bacteriology from the University of Pittsburgh, he did postdoctoral studies at Yale, becoming so immersed in his subject that he named his Siamese cats Watson and Crick. He also became disheartened by public events-the draining agony over the war in Viet Nam, assassinations, racial unrest. "I thought our political system was falling apart. I was ready to go somewhere else and live...