Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...demanded that the President say something, and make it substantive, and do it quickly. So on Friday afternoon, Jimmy Carter strode into the East Room, having carefully waited until half an hour after the major financial markets had closed in the East, to outline his plans to an invited group of 175 Government officials, congressional leaders and businessmen. His program had many details to be filled in, and his speech had been written hastily in the previous 24 hours. In fact, it was clapped together so hurriedly that one page of the final draft was left out of the copy...
Byrd, however, ran the meetings with a firm hand. At one point, when a group of Democratic Congressmen were meeting with Miller, the Treasury Secretary was summoned for a consultation with Carter. Byrd politely insisted that Miller would have to conclude his talk with the Congressmen first, and Miller eventually sent word to Carter that the President would just have to wait. Said Connecticut Representative Robert Giaimo admiringly: "Byrd taught me how to wield a gavel...
...Majority group members at Harvard often complain that they feel awkward among groups of "others." How do they think these "others" feel around them? Yes, racial tension does make people feel uncomfortable. And as long as majority group members continue to allow the burden of this discomfort to fall upon the oppressed, they are perpetuating an attidinal inequity which betrays their own unconscious racism...
Jeffrey B. Matthews '81, and Daniel C. Esty '81, will represent a group of Winthrop House students with similar complaints against HDNS in small claims court April...
...despite their incongruous and distant appearance, the Sikhs (pronounced "seeks") have taken time from their meditating and yoga, to participate actively in the commercial and spiritual realms of Cambridge and Boston. The 40-member religious group runs Golden Temple Footwear, Golden Temple Restaurant, a carpentry group called Golden Temple Craftsmen, and offers lessons in nutrition, marital counseling, and Kundalini Yoga in their center above Belgian Fudge. They live together in an ashram in Dorchester, a string of four houses, and one of 125 ashrams in America. In the nine years since the ashram's founding they say they have developed...