Word: basics
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...leads to an understanding of a new culture--an aim to which the entire Division of Modern Languages directs its efforts. After all, Geary points out, language is but one manifestation of a culture; and language itself cannot be segmented artificially into reading and speaking skills. By emphasizing the basic mechanics of speech, rather than the secondary rules of grammar, students acquire, far more quickly and much more effectively, a knowledge of a language and consequently of an entire culture...
Today, the election officials will stamp all the ballots, making the first count official. Afterwards, they will start on the surplus votes, them move to eliminate the lowest candidates until only nine councillors remain. This is done by transferring second-choice votes to the basic first-place count tabulated yesterday, and it will be at least a week before the final results are complete...
...basic French foreign policy is, reputedly, one of grandeur, a reassertion of the historic role of France in world affairs. It is a simple compound, one part reality to five parts romantic memory of Napoleon and Louis XIV and four parts de Gaulle's concept of his personal destiny. In getting rid of the immobilism that characterized the Fourth Republic, de Gaulle and his government have picked up a generous share of political illusions, and chief among them is the grandeur upon which their diplomacy is based...
Many of these restrictions stem from a misunderstanding or lack of information about the needs of education, the Dean said. He called for a statement of principles drawn up--"eventually through some form of concerted action"--which would define the "broad purposes and basic policies of the ideal national financial aid program...
...Mabe began to paint again. Two years ago he decided to make the break, sold out the family's small plot of land at a loss and set off for Sao Paulo to paint, and sell ties. On his own, he developed his present style, in which a basic, slashing, abstract expressionist manner is given style by hints of the elegant lines of Japanese calligraphy and architecture...