Word: review
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...founders of the movement in the '50s and early '60s -- the people who wrote for National Review and nominated Barry Goldwater -- included Southern Agrarians and free-marketeers, isolationists and advocates of the rollback of Communism, students of T.S. Eliot and fans of Joseph McCarthy. In the '70s there was a mass immigration of mugged liberals -- the neoconservatives. Communism acted on all these grouplets as a powerful unifying force. Whether you wanted an American Century or a minimal state, you could not be comfortable with Soviet aggrandizement. Lenin was anathema whether your philosophical polestar was Thomas Aquinas or Ayn Rand. Like...
...before 11 p.m. Thursday , Bush learned of Aquino's request that U.S. fighters place an "aggressive cap" over two airfields near Manila from which the rebels had launched attacks against government positions. Meanwhile, Vice President Dan Quayle chaired a crisis-management group in the White House Situation Room to review options. At 11:30 the Quayle group recommended granting Aquino's request, and Bush approved it an hour later. In addition, 100 U.S. Marines, part of a contingent of 800 stationed at Subic Bay Naval Base, north of Manila, were deployed on the grounds of the American embassy...
...most masters said last night that three months of intense discussion of the lottery has not gone to waste. Unlike last year--when Jewett postponed a decision on a proposal to randomize 25 percent of the spaces in some houses in order to give time for further review--this year, masters said, the dean has a good sense of where individual masters and students stand on the various lottery options...
...past, students placed on probation could petition the Ad Board for permission to participate in non-academic activities. But the Board--composed of faculty, senior tutors, first-year advisors and administrators--said that since nearly every petition has been accepted in recent years, the Board decided to review whether the non-participation contingency is fair...
...guidelines, accepted by the Faculty Council yesterday after more than a year of committee work, legal review and Faculty deliberations, also include a provision which appears to allow the press to be banned from campus speaking events, whether or not they are designated as public...