Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...educated person has to have good manners," said Rosovsky. "He has to be able to distinguish between what is junk and what has quality...
Habermas attacked Weber's theory on the bases of legal rationality for failing to "take ethical formalism seriously." The early 20th-century philosopher, Habermas said, "did not distinguish the influence of values from the moral ordinance of laws...
...attract attention, Du Pont must distinguish himself from the better- known competition with arresting ideas. To stop the spread of narcotics, he argues, all public-school teenage students should be compelled to take drug tests. (Du Pont did not go to public school.) The present welfare system is a failure and should be largely abolished. Government should offer extensive vocational training and temporary public jobs paying 90% of the minimum wage. All agricultural subsidies must be phased out over five years, after which market forces would govern farming. Any of these proposals would detonate controversy once the campaign is fully...
Harvard also has choices to make. One is whether it should reward those who distinguish themselves in carrying out the teaching burdens others are anxious only to shirk. The arguments against giving additional weight to teaching when alotting tenure are too tiresome to rehash. They make a lot of sense. It seems at the very least, however, that Lee should have been given the option of staying on at Harvard until his project was finished...
...tragedy was compounded by the devastation on the ground. The disintegrating jet slammed into the tidy houses below, igniting fires and spewing debris over several blocks. Sixteen houses were badly damaged, eight destroyed. The task of counting fatalities turned into a macabre chore as authorities tried to distinguish body parts of the air travelers from those of victims on the ground. The best estimate was that 15 neighborhood people had died, raising the death toll...