Word: stand-off
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...occupation of Massachusetts Hall by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) has now become one of the longest sit-ins in the University's history-and administrators are still debating their options as the stand-off moves into its fifth...
...some who attended the meeting that the masters were especially concerned with student vandalism. Were there any record of such destructive pranks, perhaps this concern might be reasonable--but the last record of any kind of attacks by students from one House on another was the famously innocuous stand-off between Adams and Pforzheimer, where only a gong and a "Pf" changed hands. In short, safety provides no compelling reason to block universal access...
...easy vote is deceptive, however. The final agreement marks the first apparent resolution to a long-time stand-off between opposing forces of development and preservation in the Square...
...School Professor William J. Stuntz, a criminal law expert, sometimes lectures at the legendary Quantico Academy in Virginia, where special agents train. Alan A. Stone, Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry at the Law School, has been a consultant for the FBI during crises like the stand-off between law enforcement officials and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas...
...Harvard University Guards Union voted almost unanimously to ratify their contract with the University last Friday, ending a three-year stand-off during which the guards had worked without a contract...