Word: belief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...belief, though, that Harvard has some responsibility to monitor the choices available to highly driven students such as Jason, to make sure they don't find themselves in the situation he did. Greater student oversight from other faculty members is an important departmental step toward achieving this goal; recognizing faculty achievement in mentoring on a university-wide basis is also a laudable effort...
...biggest worries in a sustained market downturn is that it might depress consumer confidence and spending. Contrary to popular belief, though, big stock market drops alone rarely herald recessions. According to a study by Peter Temin, an economics professor at M.I.T., falling stock prices directly caused only one minor economic downturn in this century...
...1980s, we had to organize a national grass-roots coalition of more than 1,000 organizations to overcome the objections of Ronald Reagan and a Republican Senate. The primary lesson I learned from that battle was that power comes from the exercise of collective action. It is this belief in what people can do when they work together, and my personal experiences mobilizing and organizing, which I hope to bring to Washington...
...years before he joined the SPH faculty, Mann was invited by the graduates to give a commencement speech. Due to his belief that health and human rights were inextricably connected, he suggested that the school distribute copies of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights along with the graduates' diplomas...
...first artist to paint the Yankee as a type. He painted barn dances, parlor courtships, farmers husking corn, truant children and jolly drunks. "Never paint for the few but for the many," he reminded himself in one of the numerous notebooks he kept, and the manifesto of this belief (not, alas, in this show) is The Painter's Triumph, 1838. It depicts Mount himself in a mood of exaltation, flourishing his palette and brushes and pointing out a detail of a painting to his ideal viewer--not a New York "conosher" but a farmer in a straw hat who still...