Word: cores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They are intellectually serious, morally serious, but not morally inflamed," says Peretz. But he says he thinks that the Core Curriculum has changed the character of his students but not the quality. "It's absolutely palpable in conversations with students," says Perets. "There's more of a common concern. It's no longer the wholly lainnez-faire attitude towards getting an education...
Grenada's General Austin, whose cold-blooded executions had created the chaos that prompted the invasion, had still not been located by week's end; he was believed to have fled into the mountains with his hard-core followers. But on Saturday a Marine detachment found the long-missing Coard in a guarded house in St. George's. Said he of the Bishop murder before he was whisked off to the Guam: "I'm not responsible. I'm not responsible...
With that minute and 48 seconds of videotape, CBS-TV last week gave the nation a riveting summary of the core of the Government's case against the fallen business hero, charged with conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine to save his faltering De Lorean Motor Co. The broadcast came only nine days before jury selection was to start in the trial in Los Angeles. While CBS officials were pleased by their scoop, prosecutors and defense lawyers, plus many of the network's peers in journalism, denounced CBS for unnecessarily jeopardizing John De Lorean...
...that such accomplishments as the storage report and the Core report have established the Undergraduate Council as a service organization, will it take students away from the House Committees? Not necessarily, observers say. Both committee members and Masters say that the House Committee can attract students who would not be attracted to the council...
...closer analysis, however, "build-down", rather than reducing the chances for a nuclear war, actually increases the likelihood. The core of the proposal simply flies in the face of established deterrence theory. The main problem lies in the projected trend for land-based missiles. "Build down" would decrease the current force by almost half, from 1.050 missiles to a total of 100 MX's plus 500 yet-to-be-designed Midgetmen. The number of warheads on these missiles would decrease less from 2.145 to 1500 Reducing the number of missiles (i.e. potential targets) more than the number of warheads compounds...