Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group engaged in important, and frequently frustrating, negotiations with the University. While they did disrupt the normal functioning of the University, members of OBU used restraint in the occupation: they neither physically assaulted nor harassed other members of the University. In sum, the OBU occupation did not present a grave threat to the University's essential academic activities...
David C. Plotke '71, head of the weeklong petition drive, said he planned to present the signatures to Harvard officials. However, he also said that any future action taken by NAC would depend on OBU's Jead. Plotke added that the apathy created by the exam period would probably postpone any unified movement until early February...
...Security hike and by a continued rise in the Government's fixed costs. He warned that an inflationary deficit in the federal budget now "would be irresponsible and intolerable." For the coming fiscal year beginning July 1, Nixon added, "I shall take the action I consider necessary to present a balanced budget...
...individualism and freedom can be exaggerated; yet the Lockean principles of individual liberty and ordered freedom that underlie the U.S. Constitution and indeed U.S. society are related to the American character and the American ideal. The line leading from the czars to Stalin to the Kremlin's present rulers is by no means straight. Still, it is no accident that the Russians-for whom a ruling father-figure rather than the individual is the central symbol in the national mystique-have a history of autocracy...
Defending the mass expulsion, Busia charged that 90% of Ghana's past and present prison population was made up of aliens. It seemed a flimsy excuse for one of the greatest forced population movements in black African history. In numbers, if not in poignancy, it exceeds two recent forced moves. One was the flight of 150,000 Watutsi from Rwanda in the early 1960s, when the tall, proud tribesmen were hunted down and slaughtered by rival Bahutus. The other was the exodus of 21,000 Asians from Kenya over the past two years...