Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business-oriented program begins with a semester of specially structured classes designed to ease the students--ranging in age from late 20s to early 60s--back into the educational process. Discovery participants then enter Radcliffe's regular Business Management Seminars Program and work towards a certificate of advanced studies in management...
Callenbach likes to shock students by telling them, "The challenge of modern life is to make it as emotionally healthy as life in a Stone Age village." Keep that in mind next time you fume over foul air and blaring traffic. Think of your Ecotopian future, smoking a joint on some peaceful municipal waterfront, watching the biodegradable plastic boats...
...fate of these people is now one of the prime moral dilemmas Australia faces. It has also made whites more aware of the realities of Aboriginal culture. For here is the oldest continuous tradition of visual art on earth (30,000 years at least, more than twice the age of the Lascaux Cave paintings), tenaciously maintained in the face of pressures from the white majority. It is not a single tradition, for the Aborigines were never a homogeneous people. Between their arrival in Australia 40,000 years ago and the whites' arrival in 1788, their society ramified into hundreds...
...Well, what I said is that let's go from age-based entitlements to need- based entitlements. We have some urgent priorities in this country. We know we have an uncompetitive educational system, and we need to invest more in education. We know we have an uncompetitive work force, with a third functionally illiterate and unable to work in the society...
...ending genuinely happy. Its theme is universal. Why, Gurney asks, when family relationships look so much alike, does each turn out to be unique? Why, despite good intentions, do parents love one child more than another -- and why do the children keep caring, right into their own old age...