Word: decentering
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...would think that, in principle at least, Cohen would agree with me that the only decent, moral government is one which leaves people free to manage their own lives...
...would up sitting pretty close to the field, but maybe we would have stayed where we were supposed to be, if we had been assigned decent seats," said Dunster House resident Robert C. Zwiebach...
...letter said the clerical and technical workers union has "settled into a tense and hostile standoff with administrators who are unwilling to offer them a decent economic package...
...among the east's disoriented youth that the trauma goes deepest. Virtually every family counts at least one member out of work, and the expectation of ever finding a decent job is slim. The institutions for transmitting values have been upended. The relationship between adults and adolescents has been shaken by the rapid shift from communism to capitalism. Explains Britta Kolberg, a social worker in east Berlin schools: "Kids see parents who were convinced socialists and are now 100% supporters of the new society. They have turned around so completely that there is a general mistrust of grownups...
...base their lottery decisions on house reputations. The system softens stereotypes, but creates reputational clusters. Lowell, once the home of Harvard's most anal, becomes the fourth choice, behind Eliot, Kirkland and Winthrop, of the final-club set. First-years who want to live in "liberal" houses stand a decent chance of getting into either Adams and Dunster. And Mather joins Kirkland as an annex to the MAC. Stereotypes shift around, but they still exist...