Word: apparatus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same game all over again, attempting to extract far more than was promised in exchange for reining in his nuclear program. On Monday, Chief U.S. envoy Christopher Hill announced after meetings with his counterpart Kim Kae Gwan in Geneva that North Korea had agreed to dismantle its entire nuclear apparatus by the end of the year. Hill said that it was the "first time" North Korea had put such a timetable on its commitment to stand down its entire nuclear program. (And indeed, precisely when the North would get rid of its entire nuclear program - not just the Yongbyon reactor...
...single religion, Christianity, is overwhelmingly dominant, and where governments dabble in “faith-based initiatives” to make political hay, it’s understandable that one would recoil at policies meant to subdue difference. What would become of the United States, after all, if the apparatus of the state, controlled by the “Christian right,” were endowed with the power to quash any form of religious expression? In conventional American wisdom, the road to theocracy is paved with good intentions, and the universalism that defines the French republican ethos seems more...
Kissinger's reputation as brilliant scholar helps explain his Confucian sex appeal. However, when it comes to American political figures of Kissinger's stature, public image ultimately depends on the propaganda apparatus; the fact that Kissinger is identified as an "old friend" of China is related to the backing the country's political elites have given him over the years. And undoubtedly, key to this backing have been Kissinger's activities here since leaving office...
...offices operate now mostly as half-furnished storage closets. The reservable meeting rooms demand no reservation, as they are perpetually empty. And yet the student groups that have not yet embraced SOCH are being punished. This policy rests on the flawed assumption that an entire organization’s apparatus can be transplanted to the Quad over the course of a few months. Blaming groups for not using SOCH is counterproductive; student groups are not little children who should be chided and made to sit out an inning because they haven’t done what the administration wanted. What?...
...administrators, and student advisers to work out core principles and allocate supportive resources—and then leave the details to the creativity of instructors and departments. The existing Core Curriculum has been much resented by students and faculty, because new courses are approved through a vast spider-like apparatus of committees, and existing courses are rarely reviewed. To carry out the new general education system as well as other promised reforms, we should allow maximum space for pedagogical creativity. Rather than tell all course heads they need to follow set formats—for exams, assignments, course scheduling, sections...