Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PBHA has suggested that the organization stop teaching people to swim. They have simply suggested that the organization stand up for a better society. The issues it confronts are too important to too many disadvantaged people to do otherwise. Long-term social progress requires politics...
Although the exhibit has been publicized with an emphasis on the attribution perspective, the drawings should also be appreciated for their own sake. They are, above all, supreme examples of technical skill and stand alone as tributes to the Rembrandt style...
...supporting 100 percent randomization, the editors believe they are taking a bold, controversial stand. They pat themselves on the back for ignoring student opinion and avoiding a "political" compromise. They feel that the issue of diversity is so serious, so urgent, that further discussion of the options is unnecessary...
...retrospect, the choice of the word "defend" was poor. But I stand by my accusation that Dershowitz is an inveterate apologist for Israel. My point was not whether Dershowitz approves of human rights violations, but whether he rationalizes them. And indeed he does...
...things currently stand, however, none of those steps will be taken. The Faculty Council removed or watered down most of the recommendations of the Verba Committee report on affirmative action. And while Andreu MasColell, the new assistant dean of affirmative action, seems well-intentioned, there is probably little he can do on his own to make the departments hire more women and minorities...