Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Diana Thomson's warmth and encouragement as a friend as well as a teacher. My papers started to reflect me as a person and as a writer and I sensed a great deal more feeling and confidence with what I was doing in fiction. I gained more and more control as I went through the term, while continually receiving constructive criticism from Mrs. Thomson concerning my ideas and my writing skills. I know a consensus of the class would agree on the value of our fiction tutelage and the enhanced value a teacher as human as Mrs. Thomson can bring...
...agenda control and by separating "the reasoned expression of ideas and arguments" from a collective decision on the basis of these arguments, Bok has rendered reason impotent. Of course divestiture supporters have had to appeal to extra-systemic means of expressing their point of view! Bok attempts to dominate this point of view by labelling it emotional." I wonder at the horror this word arouses. Yes, confronting the reality of the human condition does involve emotion (some even go so far to claim that this is what humanizes us, offers us a vision of what's truly meaningful and purposeful...
Some people in Scotland feel that a purely Scottish authority should control the oil because it appears to lie in Scottish waters. They view devolution as a first step to an assembly with the power to tax, and a few hope that complete independence will soon result...
...gamble backfired on Callaghan. Some people backed Callaghan's plan because they want Scottish control in government and see devolution as the way to do it. But many opposed devolution, either because they dislike big government and the prospect of higher taxes or because they actually want more self-governance but think that this particular plan is a paltry concession from Westminster that will be used as an excuse to ignore future requests for more autonomy. They felt the bill was designed more to help Callaghan and his failing party than to help Scotland...
Should the U.S. Agree to U.N. Control of Undersea Mining--The Advocates, Kennedy School of Government...