Word: decter
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...Midge Decter was quoted as saying, "How can a person be qualified to teach without opinions?" But should those opinions be taught as established facts? I tell my students that my personal opinions are irrelevant and will, I hope, remain unknown to them. Although I am more educated than they, I am not necessarily more intelligent. Thus I ought to teach the subject matter and let them form their own opinions. Henry N. Bousquet Clinton, Conn. Unmanly Tears...
...sure Irving Kristol, Harvey Mansfield, Midge Decter, Minister Neuhaus and company deplore the murder in Laramie; nor should I wish to curtail their First Amendment or academic freedom...
...Berlin for interviews with German television and to Auschwitz for a weekend as the guest of survivors. His story was even optioned by a would-be Hollywood dealmaker but, far from profiting, Meili discovered he had signed away his movie rights "without getting a cent" up front. As Andrew Decter, a New Jersey insurance broker who has taken the Meilis under his wing, explains, "He got starstruck, and we had to bring him back down to earth...
...fact have come up with a formula to keep these countries from fighting over water, said Sheila R. Decter, director of the New England region...
...Decter said that Fisher's economic model emphasizes that "water should be thought of not as a scarce resource but as a resource that costs x amount of dollars...