Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone was 18), the universally known fact that cigars are carcinogenic, and the unpleasantness of a smoke-filled ballroom, he urged the Undergraduate Council to refrain from advocating tobacco products. Smoking has become so taboo that even the celebratory cigar meets with indignation. Proud Papas had best content themselves with a stick of Wrigleys...
...this was elaborate scrollwork, hiding content. The substance of the week's talks was finally revealed in a 1,500-word joint communique released just before the President left Shanghai to return to the U.S. It contained no great surprises, no great letdowns. It might have said a little more; it largely dwelled on the need for friendship without getting down to many specifics. In the long run, one of the most important questions about the U.S. and China will be just how much the two countries may learn from each other...
...goals set standards for educationalachievement and for curricular content...
...prevents either side from being satisfied. When court appeals and amicae briefs are the most important locus for lawmaking, the initiative system has been hopelessly debased. Lacking in legislative finesse, ineffective propositions lead voters to despair and stop voting, or, more wisely, vote "no" on bills regardless of their content. Then, the status quo is safe--and any chance for reform is on the ropes...
...education into our own hands, to open up space to challenge what's being taught and what's not, by whom, to whom and for whom. No university education can really call itself an education if it doesn't allow students a voice in determining both the form and content of that education. And this means giving students the chance to teach themselves--which is itself a political education. It means getting together to talk among ourselves about how things in the world affect our lives as students, and about how what we do as students affects the rest...