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...Gdansk, the Baltic seaport where Solidarity was born in August 1980, the spirit of resistance still burned. More than 200 students and workers were arrested there after clashes with police on Jan. 30. Foreign journalists visited the area last week on a government-organized tour and found many workers unshaken in their loyalty to Solidarity. "We have to have unions as before," said a hull-assembly worker at Lenin Shipyard. "In this country, with its [Communist] system, it is not possible to have a true union that is not political. If the government will not give it to us, then...
...there is a good reason for confidence at the College Board. Despite all of the recent controversy over the SAT and progress on some fronts by test reformers, college admissions officers seem committed to the exam and unshaken in their loyalty to the Board and to Educational Testing Service (ETS), the company hired to actually design and administer the SAT. Some schools have conducted small-scale evaluations of the SAT on their own; others are only vaguely aware of the specifics of the debate over standardized testing. But the people who govern admissions tend to share a common perspective...
...first snap, Fusco fumbled the ball back five yards and then fell on it. Unshaken, he took the next snap from center and fumbled again, this time for a one yard loss...
...advising system loudly enough that the Faculty saw fit to launch a study, now in the files under the title "Bender Report," which recognizes that a mere handful of people were shouldering the advising burden and recommended creating group tutorials and senior tutors. But College advising's troubles remained unshaken and in 1969 the Homans report remarked that tutors still believed they had little time to tackle "their main job, communicating with students and advising them...
When Jimmy Carter went on television at 7 a.m., Friday, to announce the most surprising event of his presidency, his face was ashen, his mood was grim, but he was unshaken in his determination to press on to secure the release of the hostages, whose six months of captivity have left Carter and his White House aides somehow captives too. Like John Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs, Carter gamely took full blame for the rescue mission's failure. Said he: "It was my decision to attempt the rescue operation. It was my decision to cancel it when problems developed...