Word: descending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every year at Commencement time, dozens of alumni descend on the banks of the Charles for a week of green grass, bright tents and reunion symposia. And when the alumni arrive the University rolls out the red carpet and all the little perks...
...these arguments is not hard to dispose of. Despite innumerable studies, no connection between murder rates and capital punishment has ever been shown. Of course, it stands to reason -- it's only common sense -- that the possibility of execution would give a potential murderer pause; but those who descend into the mental maelstrom of murder tend to be precisely those who have left reason and common sense behind...
...just those diehard political types at first, would take video cameras and go visit local elected officials and candidates in their offices. It would begin at colleges and graduate schools, or among grassroots activists in cities. In a city like Boston, local activist groups could descend on the state legislators. In Washington, the vast army of students and activists could work on the whole Congress...
Lots of luck. In Dubuque as elsewhere, racial debates frequently descend into ugly arguments over affirmative action, quotas, welfare -- and worse. Smelling fertile soil, Ku Klux Klan national director Thom Robb of Arkansas and a few of his cronies made an appearance three weeks ago, attracting about 150 residents to a rally. "You hear people saying that the Klan sounds kind of reasonable, and that's scary," says Francis Giunta, head of the Dubuque Federation of Labor. Plan supporters held counterdemonstrations. Even the Guardian Angels showed up for a few days. At Dubuque Senior High School, police had to patrol...
...exactly his approach toward teaching and learning as a reflective effort that has brought some criticism from students in his classes here. According to some students, lectures seem directed toward eliciting feelings of guilt and sections descend to the level of group therapy sessions...