Word: basic
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There is a danger, through, in reducing 1969 to a symbol.We shouldn't forget that the protests also set into motion a number of important institutional changes whose effects are still felt today. The basic goal of SDS and the protestors was to force the University to server its ties with the military and in particular to eliminate the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus. It is ironic that as this anniversary passes, a bill is before the Undergraduate Council to reverse this hard-won reform...
...find it unfeasible that the Serbian government as it stands today would allow ethnic Albanians to live in Kosovo with basic rights," said Kamenica, who said he believes that the Kosovars should therefore be independent...
...more basic structural question than funding,though, is who makes up the RCAA's membership inthe first place...
...basic assumption of Barbara Ehrenreich seems to be that the female is determined entirely by genetics. Therefore, studies of the habits of prehistoric females help us see what roles are suitable for modern females. But my question is, Why would any intelligent person with freedom of choice, living at the very end of the 20th century, want to base her actions, roles and self-concept on those of cavewomen? It would make about as much sense to base her actions on those of chimpanzees. ROBERT REESE Bulawayo, Zimbabwe...
...today can be traced back to it: the now ubiquitous and obsessed-over SAT; the Wechsler, taken by several million people a year, according to its publisher; and Terman's own National Intelligence Test, originally used in tracking elementary school children. All these tests took from the Army the basic technique of measuring intelligence mainly by asking vocabulary questions (synonyms, antonyms, analogies, reading comprehension...