Word: discomfort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Powell will make some students uncomfortable--that is the nature of hearing different and opposing ideas. Discomfort leads to thought and discussion though. So think, discuss, and protest, but let him speak...
...about the latest revival of the "grade inflation" debate, spurred recently by Prof. Harvey "C." Mansfield's short-tempered comment that grades became devalued because professors fear giving low grades to minority students. In addition to the familiar round of inter-ethnic name-calling, this infelicitous statements provoked additional discomfort among faculty and students by raising the question of whether grading policies reflect objective academic merit or subjective agendas and power relations...
...true, but it didn't affect my decision," Edley said of his discomfort with the faculty's diversity...
...there will be more than enough heat to discomfort all involved. Groups ranging from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the League of United Latin American Citizens, which represents 300,000 Hispanic Americans, are running hard to head off new energy taxes. Many lobbyists stoutly oppose all the ideas being floated...
...tighter the quarters, the more this lack of privacy between openly gay and straight men could cause problems and discomfort, leading eventually to a diminishing of effectiveness...