Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...battle for a free ballot, the delegates -in what would be one of the most ironic moments of the political year-might choose another man. Meetings between Carter and Kennedy aides to work out compromises for the convention came to nothing at first, although some "progress" was reported at week's end. Kennedy could end up waging spectacular floor fights on 18 platform issues. Said he of some of the petty procedural disagreements: "That grown men and women have to spend hours and hours on this type of detail is tragic...
...reactionary backlash to what can only be deemed progress, some advocates of the return to the Indian symbol have trumpeted their dismay, claiming minority interests have received preference over others, and that the 1973 ban of the symbol constitutes a curtailment of their right to free expression. One English professor was quoted in The New York Times as saying "People are sick of the claims of victims. Whatever minority groups want these days...
...have to go back to the negotiating table," James Cassidy, president of Local 195, said yesterday. "We're back to a stage where, if there isn't progress, a strike is a real possibility," Cassidy added...
...Dershowitz fits every stereotype--He's brilliant ("the youngest professor ever appointed to the Law School Faculty" the appositizers faithfully call him). He overflows with flair (his first involvement with the Deep Throat saga came when he got the phone message that a hearing for an injunction was in progress. Half an hour later, in a borrowed coat and tie, he was Clarence Darrowing his way through the last hundred years of first amendment law in front of a duly impressed judge). And he's a true believer, the Oral Roberts of the freedom of speech. So what...
...record: No Harvard student lodged a formal complaint with the district attorney's office. Sources in that office reveal that at least two students called for information, and that the DA's office, without informing them that they might be setting a full-scale investigation into progress, decided to act on them as if they were formal complaints. The DA's office refused to confirm the sources' story or to reveal the names of the students who phoned for information...