Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summon any emotion for Bundy's victimes is especially outrageous. The bodies just pile up. The first is no more tragic than the 20th because Larson gives no thought to the women--he just cranks out a banal notation of these girls' eye color, hair length, and extra-curricular activities. The reader can only conclude that Larson really didn't care that much. Women slain in Seattle blur with women bludgeoned, stripped, and abandoned in Salt Lake City, Aspen, and Tallahassee. As the stock descriptions accumulate we get only a sense of the growth of the pile. Death here...
...when Lyndon Johnson inherited the Oval Office late in 1963, he brought with him Sam Houston Johnson, a sharp-witted drunk with a predilection for the fast life. "I guess Lyndon wanted me close by so that he could keep a big-brotherly eye on all my extra-curricular activities," Sam wrote in his 1969 book, My Brother Lyndon...
Reform, however, may not be as swift and easy as many at the Div School hope. A growing deficit could impede the development of the new curriculum, Rupp says, explaining that only if prospective donors feel the school is reducing curricular diffusion will they commit funds. Moreover, because the faculty is 90 per cent tenured, professors with new specialities may be hard to come...
...university for three-and-a-half years before his appointment as president. An organizer of one of the country's first teach-ins on the Vietnam War, he became less vocal publicly after assuming the presidency. He is credited with introducing important changes in Stanford's admissions and curricular policies...
...schedule could affect the amount of time students can spend on extra-curricular activities, and some students groups might have trouble gearing up for second-semester activities after the long break...