Word: deviationism
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Wearing the colors of their country, or their company sponsor, the front runners do not acknowledge the cheering crowd. Conservative and calculating, they monitor their pace and fluid levels with the detachment of a boilerman checking fuel guages. Clumps of serious runners follow, dedicated amateurs clustered behind a pacer. Then...
Do we still want to cling to the simplistic old formulas that equated draft avoidance with cowardice, or treated any deviation from sexual propriety as not just a mistake but a crime?
These anti-tax, anti-big spending voters--both Democratic and Republican--formed the core of the Reagan-Bush coalition. Bush's broken pledge on taxes damages this coalition more than any other deviation from the conservative agenda. A second strike against Bush is the 10 percent average annual increase in...
"I'm asked that on every campus," said Dr. Ruth, "but I have never been asked about the standard deviation before."
However, I recognize that there are particular difficulties with proving sexual harassment, and that these difficulties might warrant some deviation from the innocent-until-proven-guilty standard. But the current subjective standard is inevitably open to abuse. Like most who wish to recognize the rights of both plaintiff and accuser...