Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason I chose disability as a theme is because there's a growing interest in it on campus," said Dan Berger '89, the executive producer of the play. "Luckily, I found a play; people will think about a play in a way they won't think about a speech...
...that he thought the school deserved a resounding F. Declaring that the twelve-year-old institution "was not reaching its potential," he abruptly named a new dean: Michael Levine, 47, a tough-minded professor of management studies who was formerly chief executive of New York Air. Levine, whom Schmidt chose without consulting the faculty search committee, succeeds economist Burton Malkiel, 56, who resigned last year after strengthening the school's economics program. Schmidt is slashing the popular department of organizational behavior, which teaches the techniques of compromise and consensus building, by declaring that six junior faculty slots will be phased...
...White House; it would be a bizarre ritual, to say the least, if a President Bush solemnly recited the Pledge of Allegiance each time he stepped into the Oval Office. Dukakis' presidential agenda was almost as shadowy. Even as an underdog presumably liberated from crass campaign calculus, he chose sound-bite slogans over a last chance to talk sense to the American people...
...form alone, The Dictionary of the Khazars is revolutionary. It entertains the reader while forcing him to concentrate intensely. In addition, Pavic tells an allegory about the contradictions in language. His Khazars, who aspired to speak their own language with a foreign accent and who deliberately chose translators who made mistakes in the Khazar language, are painfully aware of the limits and possibilities of communication across boundaries of culture, gender, time and religion...
About half of all eligible voters chose not to cast ballots in this election. The Democratic mistake--made in the wake of their convention with Dukakis ahead in the polls--was to believe that they could win without tapping into the disenfranchised elements of the silent electorate. Millions of Americans feel that there was little difference between the two candidates or parties, and the political process has no relevancy to their lives...