Word: wave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...semester, riding a wave of public support including praise by campus news publications, Ken Lee had apparently achieved the highly improbable. Through a careful strategy of tackling high-profile, short-term issues on consecutive weeks, he had transformed the council's image into a can-do body...
Diversity, as many have said, was a unifying theme for the year, if there is such a thing. From the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' latest wave of soul-searching about affirmative action to the appointment of the first woman to the Harvard Corporation, the University's seven-member chief governing board, the incorporation and accommodation of difference marked both faculty and administration. Whether it was the English Department's wrangling over the inclusion of new fields or the Board of Overseers' bitter election campaign, the politics of diversity were ubiquitous...
...part of the second wave of women...I can't say I was a pioneer," Pauley says...
...school authority to reach out for his dream (he wants to be an actor, not the doctor his father insists he must become) and finds that it is beyond his emotional grasp. Though director Weir, who is good at unspoken menace (Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave), has created a subtly dark and claustrophobic atmosphere, the final tragedy is nonetheless somewhat implausible...
...British Dependent Territory, the Hong Kong Chinese cannot emigrate to the United Kingdom without special permission, which has become increasingly difficult to obtain. While a House of Commons committee is expected to recommend loosening the restrictions, most Britons fear that such a move would lead to an unwelcome new wave of immigration...