Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment and taken a hard look at reality, they would never have forwarded the claim that the Social Studies department is a Marxist citadel. Karl Marx is but one of eight theorists, for example, whom sophomores read in their tutorial. Concentrators also pore over the pages of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, pillars of the political and economic tradition to which the Republican Club is the delinquent heir. Why, each year department chairman David Landes gives a lecture in which he lambastes Marx as a historian and economist, echoing Raymond Aron's exact words that "Marxism is the opiate...
...book, A New Democracy, chapter epigraphs are pulled from Democratic heroes (Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt) but also from free-market Economists Adam Smith and George Stigler. Hart's hybrid ideology is bracing...
...year. Said Sigoloff, now riding annual sales of $3 billion from a leaner Wickes, which focuses mainly on the home-improvement market: "Considering the size of the case and the complexity, it's probably a world's record." -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Allen Pusey/Dallas and Adam Zagorin/New York, with other bureaus
...such extras as guaranteed service, training and back-up support. Says Leroy Finkel, a computer specialist for the San Mateo, Calif., school system: "From now on, the companies will have to fight and scratch to sell their machines." -By Philip Elmer-DeWitt Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco and Adam Zagorin/New York
...Freshman Adam keller led the way for Harvard over the weekend with his setting and Mohan Nadkarni followed suit with his spiking...