Word: backlashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jersey, a zealous pro-life advocate), planned pro-choice strategy with Representatives Don Edwards of Florida and Pat Schroeder of Colorado (she urged them to introduce a federal pro-choice statute), had a get-acquainted session with Democratic National Committee head Ronald Brown (she told him that Webster backlash will help the Democrats) and then capped off the day by conferring with Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon (she pressed him about a pro-choice constitutional amendment, a dream of hers that other pro- choice groups privately consider a waste of time...
...idea was a backlash of the Atari and Intellivision craze, which before dying a couple of years ago, engulfed now-college students to the point where talk of "Adventure" and "Breakout" was a more dominant subject of conversation than anything else...
...month Mikhail Gorbachev privately encouraged the leaders of Estonia and the other two Baltic republics, Latvia and Lithuania, to keep pushing for "self-determination." But, Gorbachev continued, "you must not demand that you leave the U.S.S.R." There were nods in the room from those who fear a violent Russian backlash against the Balts for their self- assertiveness and against Gorbachev himself for his tolerance of separatism...
...backlash against heavy-handed defense measures, however, is starting to develop. "Why call it a school? Let's call it a prison," complains Robert Rubel, who directs the National Alliance for Safe Schools, a nonprofit advisory group based in Bethesda, Md. He argues that it is impossible to prevent random violence. Rubel thinks schools should be diligent in controlling all kinds of disorder, handling violations of their own rules and turning crimes over to the police...
...even these measures fail to produce billion dollar results, there is still one angle left. It might, however, damage Harvard's liberal reputation and incite a Marxist backlash on campus...