Word: gettingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Council succeeded in getting the administration to dismantle the unjust Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, instituting the far better Judiciary Board instead. (1987)
The Council formed a campus-wide consortium on Minority and Women faculty, uniting dozens of campus organizations of different ideologies, and spent the year lobbying the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on the need for improving and strengthening the faculty's recruitment procedures for qualified and distinguished minority and women...
The Council also succeeded in getting the town of Cambridge to commit itself to improving lighting in Cambridge Common.
A. Washington is a power-hungry place. It has nothing to do with somebody getting money. It has to do with wanting to feel strong. That's when you reach the pinnacle in Washington.
Some American officials were still questioning whether Barco will follow through with new deportations in the face of both popular opposition and the terror campaign by the narcotraficantes. "As the cartel continues putting bombs here and there and appeals to nationalism," said one State Department official in Washington, "Colombians are...