Word: concessioner
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"It's a concession against 17 years of protestby students," said Dorothee E. Benz '87, a memberof the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee.
She maintains, in an angry denunciation of Lerner, that Women's Studies is a legitimate "developing discipline," "not intending to work as a particular propaganda," and not "a vapid political concession" by Harvard's faculty. Women's studies is not motivated by a petty political passion, and therefore the works...
As a free-thinking woman I was disgusted by an article straining to portray a developing discipline as a vapid political concession wrested from the establishment by shrews. And clever jibes at the new concentration--like writing women's thought as women's "thought"--fall short as cutting criticisms.
E. Peter Tufford, chief negotiator for Cornell and manager of the university's Employee Relations Department, said that Cornell's new proposal does not offer the union any more money for the fiscal year 1987-88 then the earlier ones did. But even though Cornell opposes the step system, the...
Such contracts, however, would not be one-sided. Besides supplying cash grants, the state would provide job training and assist welfare recipients in - looking for work. It might also pledge to subsidize day care for the children of working or studying AFDC parents, and to continue Medicaid or underwrite equivalent...