Word: waved
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OCCASIONALLY a cause comes along which holds enough emotional appeal to spur a wave of political involvement; the most recent example is the divestment issue. People start to care about politics, and they subsequently lose their apathy. But as they abandon the negative side of apathy, they sometimes also lose the positive side--tolerance for opposing viewpoints. Lately the strategies used by the proponents of divestiture have become increasingly centered on too-bad-if-you-disagree tactics such as the building of shanties in the Yard. Focus has thus shifted from trying to inform the public of the facts...
Following an unprecedented wave of controversy for a student extracurricular, a proposal for an on-campus ROTC support group gained formal approval from the student-faculty Committee on College Life in April 1983. Both University officials and students expressed concern that the ROTC-related club would engage in the type of recruiting and other activities banned by the 1969 Faculty legislation...
Smaller agencies will feel the most pressure in the coming months as they are picked over by the giants that are out shopping. But even some of the larger agencies will doubtless hear the footsteps of cash-rich competitors. Before it is over, the current wave of consolidation in advertising may produce agencies that will dwarf even BBDO's new three-part giant. As Mary Lou Retton might put it, "Watch out, big boys...
...down how many of these could be called direct or indirect victims of Gaddafi. For once, Gaddafi in his Wednesday talk made no threats of new attacks. But by week's end Radio Tripoli was calling for bloody vengeance. His followers and allies by then had already begun a wave of reprisal attacks. Among them...
...make the world smaller for the terrorists," commanded President Reagan on April 7, as the U.S. looked for ways to forestall a new wave of Libyan terrorism. The planning for an air strike that would ultimately engage 150 warplanes and drop some 60 tons of bombs on Libya was intricate and constrained by a host of political and diplomatic as well as military considerations. It required U.S. airmen to fly through heavy flak in the dead of night and strike with flawless precision. The primary target: Colonel Gaddafi's headquarters. The unstated hope: that the Libyan leader would be asleep...