Word: statement
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Whatever statement [Richardson's award] makes is obvious," Darling said...
...group's goals, its mission statement reads, are both to "provide community opportunities for the Harvard campus" and "promote awareness of issues that affect women...
...quickly drop them. That's why the Scout oath is so mushy, requiring its takers to be "morally straight," a term devised a century ago, before the word "straight" had a sexual implication. Today, however, it is the term to which scouting officials must point when asked for a statement of their views on gays...
...ensued, and someone eventually pointed out that Rhode Island has a law against anti-gay discrimination. The local Scout council issued a statement offering the kid the job. But when the men at Scout headquarters heard about the controversy, they had spokesman Gregg Shields confirm that the boy can't be a scout if he is gay. The local council quickly backtracked, reaching an uneasy compromise with headquarters: the boy kept the job--and his scouting membership--but he had to agree not to talk about being gay. Since then, the United Way and other funders have been under pressure...
Sources: Most recent proxy statement, Microsoft; Associated Press