Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year when thousands of Harvard women went to Washington, D.C. to march for women's rights, Radcliffe appointed a president afraid of the feminist "label," as Wilson has called...
...afraid to die. But we have already lost a lot of blood. We must leave the square...
...military sales to China. That froze in the pipeline some $500 million of undelivered equipment, mainly electronics gear to improve the performance of F-8 fighter planes. Bush also authorized the Immigration and Naturalization Service to extend the visas of Chinese students in the U.S., many of whom are afraid to go home. Later in the week, as outright civil war seemed to threaten, the State Department urged all Americans in China to get out, and made that an order for families and dependents of its diplomats. By week's end some 7,300 of the roughly...
...done about violent youngsters? Many Americans are calling for stronger laws and punishments. They argue that juveniles should be prosecuted as adults and that prison sentences should be longer. "These kids are getting away with murder," declares Robert Contreras, a police detective in Los Angeles. "They are not afraid, have no respect for anything and joke that in jail they'll at least get three square meals a day." Syracuse's Goldstein surveyed 250 juvenile delinquents for their solutions to violence and found that they too favored harsher sentences. Many thought that jail was too "cushy...
...reach where I'm notwelcome or where it's not really part of my rolebecause one can tend to do damage there. One ofthe things that I explored when I was looking atthis job was just what exactly is this role, whatare the issues. I will not be afraid to speak upif I have ideas that I think would be useful...