Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Cross, though painful, had not hit home nearly so hard as the abduction of Laporte, a powerful political figure and a personal acquaintance of both Bourassa and Trudeau. Justice Minister Jerome Choquette immediately offered to negotiate a safe-conduct passage abroad for the kidnappers in exchange for the return of the two hostages. Lemieux responded by lauding the FLQ as "the most progressive, devoted, and generous element of Quebec youth, perhaps even Quebec society." And many Montreal youths joined in the response. The 7000-student University of Quebec voted to close indefinitely until the provincialgovernment met the FLQ's demands...
...when I was accused of robbing a gas station of seventy dollars I accepted a deal-I agreed to confess and spare the county court costs in return for a light county jail sentence. I confessed but when time came for sentencing they tossed me into the penitentiary with one to life. That was 1960. I was eighteen years old. I've been here ever since. I met Marx Lenin, Trotsky, Engels, and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed...
...unrestricted accounts and its deans, particularly Dean Ford, prudently built up a capitalized balance in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Instructional Fund, an account this Faculty keeps with the University, that amounted to more than $9 million in 1967. (The account receives the same rate of return as endowment...
Asked if he had ever considered returning, Samuelson said "On a couple of occasions I have had several very flattering offers to return, but on consideration, I realized that my situation at M. I. T. was perfect. There are sometimes very romantic rumors that I'd been badly treated at Harvard, but that isn't the case...
...between pedagogic conservatives, who resent the symbolism of any change, and pedagogic rebels, whose visions of dramatic change differ so greatly among each other that I find it hard to imagine them agreeing on an alternative set of curricula. A good many students and some faculty would like to return to a system of free electives, abandoning both concentrations and General Education; the proposal for Special Concentrations is sufficiently restricted so as to make abuse unlikely, and by making any particular concentration seem less involuntary, because students have a chance to create their own, may help make concentration itself more...