Word: abolishes
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...difficult? Sure. It's difficult for everybody. It's difficult for the whole country. The thing is, we've seen our country and Americans make the difficult decisions over and over. From liberating France during World War II to back to the Civil War to abolish slavery, we have made the difficult decisions. Americans have, and they've made them with a lot of grace and a lot of courage. And that's what we're doing...
...powers would not join his coalition and that he did not seek to impose a regime change or an occupation of the Barbary States. And those who ponder the ethics of history might take a crumb of comfort from the fact that though he could not bring himself to abolish slavery in the U.S. and even supported its retention in Haiti, Thomas Jefferson at least managed to destroy it somewhere...
This year, the College finally released the results of its examination of the curriculum. In a report, the College recommended to abolish the Core—the cornerstone of Harvard’s curriculum—and replace it with the newly approved Harvard College Courses, a general distribution requirement...
Many critics believed that the waves of general education reform did not point towards anything progressive, and that the national flurry of reforms marked a swing of the pendulum back to the way curricula were before 1960s campus activists forced many university administrations to abolish or loosen course requirements...
...want to make sure they feel safe here,” Hayes said. ‘It’s easier for us to abolish everything than to make an exception...