Word: departing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect in America is that equal opportunity will bring diversity. The way to diversity is through equal opportunity, and not through affirmative action preference. That is our principle, it is essentially a liberal principle. It is also a principle on which almost all Americans agree, and if we depart from that principle--which I think affirmative action does--then I think we're heading out to open sea, and I think that's our present situation...
...already leaving the White House; Reagan formally nominated him last week to be Attorney General in the wake of the resignation of William French Smith, once the President's personal lawyer. The other two members of the "troika" that constituted a kind of inner Government are expected to depart soon after Election Day: White House Chief of Staff James Baker, a pragmatist and tactician, to another post in the Government, and Deputy Chief Michael Deaver, one of Reagan's oldest and closest friends, to private life...
...morning I glanced up at the inscription--"Enter to Grow in Wisdom"--and laughed at the irony as I crammed for my finals. Late that night when I left the library I tried to get out to Mass. Ave. by the same gate but it was locked shut "Depart to Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind" was the statement above the padlock, and that too struck me as an appropriate coincidence...
When I and my 1600 contemporaries in the Class of 1984 depart from Harvard, this June we will take our elite education out into a nation that badly needs our service. While the problems touching this country are less serious than those afflicting others, they are also less excusable because the United States has the means to solve them. With millions of Americans malnourished. The government stores enough food to give every family two tons of grain and 40 pounds of dairy products. With countless homeless citizens, contractors level old apartment buildings for office and parking spaces. With rural...
...earlier, to form a Third World Center; Harvard displays reluctance to bend from the immediate social values with which it is most familiar--an "integrated" class, a stable social setup, or, in this case, the "traditional" formula for scheduling of Commencement. In each case Harvard's reluctance to depart from its time-honored mindsets has led to embarrassment, conflict, and a group's perception that Harvard has little concern for group members' needs...