Word: stand-off
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Saying the Law School should solve its own problems, Dean Robert C. Clark has declined the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's offer to help mediate a stand-off between the administration and Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell over affirmative action policies...
...line is that the American electorate remains dealigned--not realigned, predominantly moderate, not liberal and conservative. During the 1960s and 1970s, Democrats dissipated a generation's worth of political capital, but during the 1980s Republicans have failed to capitalize on their opportunity. The 1986 Congressional elections only affirm the stand...
After falling behind, 7-1, by the end of the second quarter, the Crimson played Navy to a 5-5 stand-off the rest of the way--and punctuated the "comeback" by successfully defending against a rare 6-on-4 Cadet power play at the end of the game...
...fall is a useful ease in point. The situation was a real mess, no doubt, in which it was difficult to separate the heroes from the villams, but it was also difficult not to be struck, in conversations and encounters, by the extent to which students there viewed the stand-off as a personal nuisance, rather than as a real debate about principles of worker benefits and rights. I wonder what the Harvard student body reaction would be to a similar situation here...
WHATEVER the case, it seems foolish of the Reagan Administration not to seize this juncture as a crucial moment to build from the ashes of the Reagan-Andropov stand-off. President Reagan ought not to be sending ersatz messages of condolence in the back pocket of his Vice-President; he should be attending the funeral himself. If Reagan were to attend the funeral it would signal the end of one of the most foolish and dangerous trends in U.S. Soviet relations. Not since Kruschev came to America in the 1960s has a Russian or an American bead of state visited...