Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blizzard, the end of the world, or some such act...
...opportunity to act out a favorite academic fantasy: an hour-and-a-half to interrogate Dean Rosovsky on the touchy topic of how he runs the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...those who argue against professional schooling or academic specialization of one sort or another think they have chosen to go to school. Despite what the Admissions Office might say, and as our own experiences in innumerable petty situations will attest, Harvard is hardly just a liberal arts college. To act as if Harvard College equals Harvard University--and that undergraduate opinion and requirements should be satisfied above all else--is to choose to ignore part of Harvard's basic nature as a major scientific and research institution...
Carter was left trying to persuade individual Senators to set up merit commissions. So far, Senators in 18 states have agreed. The Omnibus Judgeship Act empowers the Administration to establish "standards and guidelines" for choosing federal district judges. But as Attorney General Bell cautions, "They're not mandatory. It's more of a friendly persuasion operation...
This grim picture of the winter holidays accumulated in psychological literature and passed, during the last generation, into the popular domain. These days it can be casually overheard around almost any office, street corner or watering hole. Indeed, many Americans have begun to sound, and a few to act, as though the appropriate way to navigate the holidays is with a clipboard and psychiatric checklist for keeping track of casualties...