Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candidate slates nominated last week by both the Harvard Alumni Association and Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) reflect a trend toward boosting the 30-member Board's cast of scientific experts...
Although senior city officials this week defended their policies toward hiring and promotion of minorities in the Cambridge Police Department, two major lawsuits by Black officers have focused the city's attention on practices they claim are unfair and discriminatory...
Hernandez said that Davis is unwilling to settle out of court with the Police Department, and that the case will likely head to trial. And although four of the five officers in the promotion lawsuit are working toward a settlement, attorney Douglas I. Louison said that the fifth will probably pursue an independent action against the city...
...suspicious of what I have been reading and seeing on television, suspicious because I see very few stories -- actually only a few quotes and sound bites and pictures of the same demonstrators in Leipzig shouting their unification slogans -- as evidence that the country's citizens are marching headlong toward one Germany. In East Berlin, where I rode the trains back and forth to the West from the Friedrichstrasse Station, where I walked into cafes and discos and shops and asked people their feelings, I could hardly find any citizens who said they wanted a reunified, single Germany. Perhaps...
...evening, and together we walk toward the border, passing by the embassy of the U.S.S.R., a huge imperial palace with a bust of Lenin bathed in subdued light...