Word: cores
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...plan is also modeled on prevailing notions about existing economic structures throughout the report Bok refers to the "private sector" and the "public sector" in an almost grotesque parody of Harvard's adamantly neo-classical Economics Department. In the report's outline of a core curriculum for public leaders Bok includes "an exposure to economics" with an emphasis on training that "should enable students to analyze the role of incentives in influencing the behavior of individuals and institutions." There seems to be no room for Marxian economics in the program because the program simply reflects the status...
Here we are at the core of Ullmann's misconception of the role. Her Nora does not grow toward self-awareness or strive for emancipation (as Claire Bloom's so affectingly did a few seasons ago). Instead, she simply seems to assert herself by different methods. Thus there is no sense of either exhilaration or poignance in her departure...
...common body of knowledge and general skills that can contribute to the education of policy analysts and administrators whether they seek their training in a school of government, a faculty of education, a department of city planning, or a school of public health. It is to this basic core of instruction that we must now turn...
...these reasons, it is important to include an exposure to economics in our basic core. Needless to say, no professional program could hope to train fully qualified economists, or there would be room in the curriculum for little else. But it should be possible to familiarize students with a basic understanding of the relationship among economic variables and the subtler ways in which they influence one another. In particular, such training should enable the student to analyze the role of incentives in influencing the behavior of individuals and institutions, whether the incentives take the form of taxes, interest rates, tariff...
Beneath all Andelin's devotional trickery lies a core of compassion. For example, she suggests that before a wife tries to reform an alcoholic husband, she should fast for three days to get some idea of the pain withdrawal will cause...