Word: decentering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begin with, the leadership of the club has proven to be nothing less than bigoted and intolerant in its beliefs and behavior. It has alienated large sectors of the student body by endorsing views most decent people would be ashamed to utter--views which hold that Blacks are inferior to whites, that all women are genetically predisposed to be led by men and that homosexuals are somehow not full human beings...
Katy Gibb is one of the better comic creations to come along in recent fiction, a moody, slovenly girl whose main weapon in life's wars is a brazen will. Bland, a decent soul at sea without his job, never does learn how she found out that the apartment across the hall from his was vacant during the tenants' vacation. She makes it her squat and him her quarry. Her national origin is never clear, nor does her array of vowel sounds provide much of a hint. But her spiritual roots are in California. She claims to be adept...
...teachers throughout the United States were $70,000. College graduates from schools like Harvard--other than those students who have wanted to teach since they were 12--might actually be drawn to teaching instead of professions like investment banking, because they would rightly believe they could make a decent living as a teacher. As it is now, with the average starting salary for teachers about $23,000, no wonder many college students shun the profession without seriously considering...
There were so many other games during That Streak in which Harvard had a decent chance of winning. Harvard led Hartford and Dartmouth at the half, but fell to both teams. The Crimson were tied with Vermont, B.U., and UNC-Greensboro, but all of those games ended up with...
...Crimson does not have a problem with those kinds of things. It simple has made a fundamental error in each game during the streak--such as bad free throw shooting against Princeton, or fouling like crazy against Dartmouth--that has out-weighed an otherwise decent game...