Word: belief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of information they reveal about a student and the possibility that the tests are culturally biased. The very existence of special admissions programs like the one at the University of California at Davis Medical School, from which Bakke was twice rejected, is based in part on a belief that standardized tests are an inadequate means of evaluating applicants...
...plan received surprised him--when he first realized that the Harvard reforms had struck some sort of educational nerve. After that, as the waves of publicity grew, as the stories in the national papers stretched longer and edged their way onto the front page, they merely confirmed his belief in the importance of the task at hand...
...didn't seem 51 years since the spring and summer of 1927, when Cambridge and Boston had become the epicenter of agitation, the seat of passion and concern over the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The place was suffused with uneasy conscience and fearful belief that Harvard had better do something about it. So it seemed...
This period of expansion and growth was both a result of, and a response to America's emergence as a leading world power. College enrollment increased from the widespread belief that the new technocratic and industrial society demanded, as never before, large numbers of highly trained and educated individuals. As Americans felt called upon to play an active role in world affairs, area studeis were started to provide new information about non-Western cultures (notably the USSR and China); a recognition of the importance of science and technology in the modern world led to the massive amounts of federal...
...university students were drafted and placed under military discipline when they protested Mobutu's policies. Most of the rest of the city consists of mud huts, where the people eke out a living on the edge of starvation. And corruption is a way of life. (According to popular belief, Mobutu simply does not pay his soldiers, which is why they set up road-blocks in places like Lubumbashi and Matadi, waving submachine guns and demanding bribes before they let drivers pass...