Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ordinary North Koreans seem afraid to express any views, however orthodox, on such matters. They make do on an average salary of $41 a month, most of which goes for food (a raincoat costs around $32 and a black-and-white TV $160). Rents are negligible or nonexistent. Consumer goods are generally drab and in short supply. Only imported Volvos, Toyotas and Mercedes racing through the quiet streets suggest a world of plenty beyond the walls of Kim Il Sung's socialist fortress. But North Koreans do not publicly acknowledge that possibility. As one movie commentary...
...would likely endanger completion of three other unfinished WPPSS plants on which $6.1 billion is owed. Moreover, the uncertainty that it would create could shake the very foundations of the municipal bond market and lead to huge losses for big and small investors alike. Says Robert Adler, a Shearson/American Express vice president: "Small, medium and large investors will all be hurt-all the way across the country...
...staff.) Recently, Dr. Samuel Proctor--a leading Black educator scholar, holder of the Martin Luther King professorship Rutgers and pastor of the country's largest and most prestigious Black church--delivered a major lecture on Black cultural history. Only one Black undergraduate attended. This prompted Dr. Proctor to express both concern and sympathy for what he called the "lost" Black student. For a meant lecture presented by Black female astronaut and NASA Chief of Medical Operations Dr. Irene Long, only three Black undergraduates showed up. One could go on and on with other embarrassing examples. It is significant that none...
...massive, multiracial student turnout and spontaneous exhibition of admiration clearly justify the Leonard/Ross visits and prove that they did more to help Harvard's race relations than so hurt them. Ms. Ross, a gracious, intelligent international star, heard some 60 students at a South House luncheon individually express their fondness for her and explain the significance of her music to their lives. She expressed reciprocal fondness for the warmth of the Harvard admirers and deep appreciation for the Harvard Foundation's recognition. Mr. Leonard, the second prize fighter to visit Harvard in the last decade, was equally gracious and appealing...
...student role will, necessarily, be limited to moral support. Many students have already backed Local 26 by attending a union rally and by signing a student-circulated petition Undergraduates can step up their efforts by contacting Powers and his boss Vice President Daniel Steiner '54 to express their views. And most importantly, if it comes to a strike next fall, students should stay on Local 26's side of the picket lines...