Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues ranging from financing student activities, to the E.R.A., to women's studies, to security and violence on women's college campuses. In the workshop on security and violence, which I attended, one of the topics discussed was the special problems of security at Radcliffe due to its urban location. A Mount Holyoke delegate mentioned that one of the larger, violence-related problems that they are facing is "date-rape...
...commented that perhaps "date-rape" is less common at Radcliffe not because of our urban location (as was printed), but because of the fact that it is part of a co-ed university community. Radcliffe women have opportunities to socialize with men in casual, non-dating situations that are not available at women's colleges...
...Hail to the Chief no doubt glued people to their governments from the moment tribes first formed, just as, later, did "Long live the King!" History has left a litter of slogans from all its great events, civil as well as martial-and not only political history. After Pope Urban II in 1095 called for war to recapture the Holy Land, the spontaneous outcry of listening clerics -"God wills it!"-helped fire up Christendom for the First Crusade. The translation of philosophy and doctrine into slogans has assisted in every major political turnabout, from Runnymede to Yalta. Indeed, the history...
...held dozens of meetings with hundreds of Americans who told her about their favorite programs and spending priorities. Generally, she made no promises, bluntly explaining that the deficit had to be kept down. But for some groups she did more. When big city mayors complained about federal cuts in urban aid, she arranged for them to meet Carter. After that session, the Administration boosted a key urban program by $150 million in the 1980 budget and asked that $200 million be added to this year's appropriation...
Beyond uplifting urban renewal, Detroit offered the Republicans 17,400 seats in Cobo Hall, which is just three blocks from Ren Cen and its towering Plaza Hotel, with a revolving rooftop bar and a 240-seat nightclub. The hotel will serve as the party's convention headquarters. City officials assured Republicans that more than 16,000 hotel beds will be available, although only some 3,000 will be in downtown Detroit. Many will be across the river in Windsor, Ontario, and others 40 miles away in Ann Arbor and even in dormitories at the University of Michigan...