Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stanford Law Review (Stanford University): Stanford selects its editors solely through a five-week writing competition in the fall, during which candidates write law review notes and perform tasks like checking citations, says outgoing president Adam W. Glass '78. "There's some self-selection--people drop out, and we vote on the people who are left," he says. "The process is as blind as possible, but in the second half of the comp when people are working around the office it's hard to be completely anonymous." Glass says that race and gender are considered a "valid topic for discussion...
...cupidity of each man will contribute to the greater good of all. Now this assumption, as handy as it might be for the world's voracious strivers, presents a considerable affront to those who think greed is a bad thing, among whom, I suspect, is Galbraith. So while Adam Smith and his spirtual heirs, from Alfred Marshall to Milton Friedman to Arthur Laffer, contorted the concept of greed into a good thing, Galbraith said no; greed exists, and will ensure the production of privately produced goods, but society needs a counterforce to the less noble parts of man's character...
...suck live," said Nick Lowe, when asked for comment about Rockpile's recent break-up. This self-effacing humor makes these bands sound so fresh, but also limits the market for them in this country. Where Adam and the Ants, a group that dons warpaint and drone on and on about "Ant-people" have become instant stars, the faceless three-minute ditty men, covering classic pop songs and penning their own to match, are buried forever...
Running without the services of Gus Udo, Adam Dixon, Jay Hudson, and seniors Peter Nsiah and Mare Chapus (exam pressures and injuries), the Crimson still managed to rack up a total of four sweeps--100 meters. 400 meters, javelin, high jump--and all but two first places...
When God foreclosed on Eden, he condemned Adam and Eve to go to work. Work has never recovered from that humiliation. From the beginning, the Lord's word said that work was something bad: a punishment, the great stone of mortality and toil laid upon a human spirit that might otherwise soar in the infinite, weightless playfulness of grace...