Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Making volunteer work mandatory sparks more controversy. Proposed legislation in California would require all four-year students enrolled in state schools or receiving state aid to devote time to community projects. But, argues Robert Pollack, dean of Columbia College in New York City, "required service is not service, it is...
"I think it's a very intense game. I'm afraid of anyone whose intensity for a nonintellectual game exceeds the concentration they would devote to their driving," says Dudley House affiliate David MacDonald '88, a "reformed foosball addict" who still plays about once a week.
The root problem, say most reformers, is that AFDC does not require recipients to do anything in exchange for their benefits. Indeed, as presently administered, AFDC actively discourages work, in keeping with the bygone society of its origin, which simply assumed that most women would devote themselves to housekeeping and...
In order to devote enough time to their research, minority professors find they have to say `no' to student requests for counseling. But many say that turning students away is not the solution. "It's a very painful thing to do because you do feel that you're here to...
Yet Chrysler (1985 sales: $21.3 billion) will head into that uncertain and highly competitive period in strong condition. The automaker is expected to post earnings of $1.25 billion for 1986, which will follow $4.7 billion in profits during the previous three years. The profit stream will enable Chrysler to devote...