Word: marginalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council voted by a wide margin to call on Harvard and the military to negotiate the return of Reserve Officers Training Corps back to campus--without academic credit--after a 20-year hiatus...
Last week the school gave its first official signs of reaction to the persistent criticisms. Ending the first phase of an intense two-year-long curriculum review, the school's faculty by a wide margin voted its approval of the general direction of the review's coordinating committee, which called for a greater emphasis on ethics and politics in the curriculum...
Bush thinks such caveats are unnecessary and could still scuttle the program. Republicans are calling the Byrd resolution a "sour-grape amendment" from those Democrats who lost the vote to kill the whole deal. But the Senate vote, 72 to 27, provided a large enough margin to override a veto. Whether the plane ever takes off or not, the Japan-bashing rhetoric remains in full flight...
BOSTON--By a margin of 23-16, pro-choice forces in the Massachusetts Senate yesterday rejected resolution calling on Congress to pass a Human Life Amendment that would outlaw abortion by declaring that life begins at conception...
...measure of the mayor's long-standing reputation for honesty that the shocker did not prevent his re-election to a record fifth term last month (though this time by a narrow margin), but he has resolved to exonerate himself. Bradley has appointed a commission to rewrite the city's ethics rules in a "clearer and cleaner" fashion, and last week told the city council, "While not a legal mistake, my decision to engage in outside employment was an error in judgment because of the possible perceptions it created; for that I accept responsibility. I assure you that this experience...