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Departments often argue--and with some justification--that they do not have sufficient resources to meet the demands of the special programs. But the policy of resistance is often deliberate: departments resent the ability of these interdepartmental programs to lure honors students, and resist their attempts to attract more staff...
...University need not have battled the Commonwealth to register its disapproval of an oath many of its Faculty members resent. Moral courage was not required of the Corporation. It would seem that if the Corporation had wished to remain noncommittal over the oath, to avoid a brouhaha, it need only have agreed to wait for M.I.T...
That was not their only complaint. Union leaders resent Johnson's attempts to impose wage-price guidelines, which they regard as discriminatory. Labor was irked last year when the President allowed Congress to shelve the minimum-wage bill, and is now disappointed by the Administration's proposal to set a minimum wage of $1.60 an hour by 1968 rather than the $1.75 that it has requested...
Taylor stated Thursday that "resent American strategy is the best that has been suggested and that it is important to adhere...
Superficial Irritant. A few militant Negroes resent any attempt to alter their speech habits. Negro Writer Le-Roi Jones asks: "What's wrong with our black tongue now?" Philadelphia N.A.A.C.P. Leader Cecil B. Moore argues that "my dialect never hurt me-and no one tries to change the Irish, Italians or French who have dialects." Author Langston Hughes backhandedly praises the "old shoe" approach as "bordering on the poetic...