Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...accumulated more power than most heads of state ever dream of possessing. Last week the Soviet parliament granted him even greater authority by approving a presidential plan to place the government directly under his control. Only this time, Gorbachev's victory seemed more like a retreat from his pursuit of democratic reforms. Under growing pressure to halt the country's descent into political and economic chaos, the Soviet leader appears to be recasting himself in a conservative mold...
...letter to The Crimson, Defeat Homophobia writes that the employee was well within his rights to refuse "to aid AALARM in its pursuit of free speech" and that his action was one of conscience. Would Defeat Homophobia's position be the same if a Kinko's employee had refused to copy one of their posters? What if he had said, "I'm morally opposed to homosexuality. I have a deep problem with an organization that explictly advocates acts I deem sinful...
...officer at the scene said that police had a description of the assailant and were in pursuit...
...employee simply refused to aid AALARM in its pursuit of free speech. This is not tantamount to censorship, as AALARM has charged. Individuals, as an issue of conscience, must not oppose the right of others to freedom of speech, but they need not participate in that speech...
...president will have to convince each of them that Harvard will continue to offer its student an education equal to what they received, toward the goal of providing the world with graduates as motivated and successful as they, and in pursuit of that goal produce research and scholarship useful to those graduates and their employers. The richest among them may contribute more in one year than the average American will earn in a lifetime...