Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard seems to have been doing something right all these years. We must consider educational change carefully to insure that it is helpful change--helpful to the students. Students must participate in educational change made in their name. They are one source of expertise on education; faculty are another. Each...
Many of my high school students consider spelling and definition to be a floccinaucinihilipilificating task at best. You may well imagine how they judged their route to a more rounded education to have been subtly floccinaucinihilipilificated when they were finally confronted with floccinaucinihilipilification!
During private talks in the gold-carpeted presidential office in Brasilia's Planalto Palace, both leaders touched only briefly on the issues that divide them. Carter urged Brazilians to consider fueling their nuclear reactors with thorium rather than uranium. Reason: uranium-fueled reactors produce more plutonium that can readily...
In addition to pleading in this oblique fashion for his own life, Moro warned authorities to consider the consequences to the government if he should be forced to disclose state secrets. Moro suggested that the Vatican could be useful in the case.
If nature abhors a vacuum, as is said, it does not always do so in a predictable way. Consider Korea's Demilitarized Zone, which stretches for 151 miles near the 38th parallel, between North and South Korea. For a quarter-century, two armed adversaries have sullenly, sometimes violently, confronted...