Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overall purpose is to restore basic democratic principles to the United States government....We are working to have a questioning environment on campus of what this country was founded on and whether Ronald Reagan is qualified to be President," said John Bonifaz '87, founder of Students for Ethical Government...
...basic story stems from the unlikely premise of a family plagued by an anonymous baby's telephone calls. This incessant ring-ring, goo-goo-ga-ga subsequently transforms itself into a tenuous metaphor for familial deterioration--the Goldstein clan find themselves drowning in lunacy...
...committed to every period and comma in the document, but I think the basic outline is very solid," said Faculty Council member Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies...
...arena, ceding the terrain to political scientists. But not James McGill , Buchanan. He reasons that politicians and public servants act primarily to promote their own self-interest, not to serve some higher public good. They behave, he declares, much like consumers in a marketplace. For work stemming from that basic theory of political economy, Buchanan, 67, last week won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Economic Science. The Tennessee-born professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., is the 14th American to win the economics award since it was first given...
...director in the State Department's Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office whose card was carried on the C-123K flight by Pilot William Cooper, angrily denied any connection with the supply runs. Said he: "Maybe it's none of anybody's business. Whatever happened to the right of privacy, to basic freedom of association in this country...