Word: bettereds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should croon, "Yale is a much better school...
Harvard is neither a mere profit-seeking business nor a lonely, environmentally-conscious citizen. It is a torch-bearing institution with enormous power of example. By committing to recycling, it not only trains people to build a better world, but takes active part in the process. Besides, what good are educated men and women without a decent planet to live...
...generation (and given our single-mindedness, we will, I read, all have them). To begin with, Professor Blumenthal assumes that the decision "not to crowd the other one" is necessarily selfish. On the one hand, the decision "not to crowd" is an economic reality. The American dream of living better than our parents, or living as well as our parents, simply requires more effort today than it did. The dual-career family, which only became the norm with our parents' generation, is a reality far removed from the free-loving ideal Professor Blumenthal's youth experimented with...
...nothing has changed since the spring, except for the degree of student enthusiasm about the issue. The statistics are well-known by now: only 6.3 percent of the University's senior faculty are women; 6.2 percent are minorities. And for tenure-track junior faculty, the statistics are not much better: 16.9 percent are women, 8.6 percent are minorities...
...potential for discord. Bush has approached this new step in U.S.-Soviet relations with his characteristic prudence. In a time of dynamic social and political upheaval in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union itself, Bush said, "I just didn't want to miss something, something that I might get better firsthand from Mr. Gorbachev." The Soviet President has been less patient. In late October, Gorbachev said privately that for months he had been exasperated with the Bush Administration's slow and uncertain response to the shifts in Kremlin policy. He was beginning to suspect, he said, that Washington believed...