Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people are with us. We will win the war." But the extent of the President's fear was evident as the regime summoned the 30,000 members of the ruling People's Democratic Party who have been newly armed with automatic rifles and are intended to serve as the core of a neighborhood militia for the defense of the capital city of Kabul. Only 6,000 party stalwarts turned out for the rally, and all of them had to undergo body searches by security forces...
...Human Behavioral Biology," this year after having been dismissed from Foreign Cultures 48, "The Cultural Revolution," as sophomores last year. The only fair way to reduce enrollment is to establish a standard procedure, so that students are aware of what faces them when they walk into a crowded Core class...
...staff position fails to take into account a number of factors which make lotteries an inevitable part of the Core Curriculum, and glosses over the simplest solution. The proposed plan, increasing the number of courses offered, would not solve any problems; some classes will always be overly popular due to student preferences and word-of-mouth, regardless of the amount of offerings...
...standard procedure" for lotteries, as there are too many variables, such as when the course will be offered again and how much space is available. Likewise, it would be unfair to exclude concentrators, since departments cannot be expected to offer similar classes both within and outside of the Core...
Lotteries have always been present, especially in the Core, but until this year they were just a nuisance, not a burning issue. The key to the problem is briefly mentioned in the staff position. Return the shopping period to its original length, giving everyone time to recover if thrown out of a course, and lotteries will fade into the background where they belong...