Word: designate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This backdrop contains vivid scenes -- among them, the subjugation of an immense subcontinent and ancient cultures by an upstart island, and the upheavals that result when this thralldom is abruptly ended. But the history is parceled out in telling, individual details, people and places caught up in a grand design of which they are innocent and that, in the long run, may turn out to be simply chaos...
...faulty reasoning taking place here becomes evident after scanning a small red pamphlet entitled, "Introduction to the Core Curriculum: A Guide for Freshmen." In particular, the guide states that "by design Core courses are different from those offered by the departments" and that "in choosing Core courses you should, at an early date, take courses in one or more of the subdivisions [of the Core] that seem most remote from your present interests...
...juniors and seniors, which is the only sensible way to run a lottery. But the fact that students swarmed to a slightly modified version of an introductory level departmental course reflects badly on the Core as a whole. It indicates that Core courses are not as different "by design" as Core officials had hoped they would...
Willie, who was hired by Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn last year to design a new desegregation plan for the city, says, "Over the years people thought that an institution which was 20 percent Black or brown was desegregated. Harvard boasts of the fact that one-fifth of its entering class each year is minority...
Hanging on the wall of City Manager Robert W. Healy's office is a plaque praising the city for exceptional urban design...