Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sons of bitches," were the exact eloquent words he pronounced at the end of a picture-taking session on Friday. It's nice to know that the top dog in the White House is as human as the rest of us foul-mouthed Amercans. But the Gipper certainly doesn't think...
SELF-STYLED WATCH DOG of American higher education, Accuracy in Academia (AIA) has taken its so-called "operations" into the Ivy League. Last week, the right-wing group telephoned a professor at Princeton to question his choice of course books and his selection of an East German guest lecturer. The AIA "reporter"--no doubt someone with a penchant for rhetorical questions--asked whether the professor "knew the difference between propaganda and politics...
...fact that AIA grew out of a media watch-dog organization casts suspicion on its intentions. AIA was founded to trace the origin of a supposed liberal bias in education using the same methods as its media-watching parent organization. Malcolm Lawrence, president of AIA, draws the parallel between media and education: "The classroom can be compared to a newspaper. The professor is the source of information or service for which the student pays...
Much of the credit, by all accounts, is due Henry Ponder, who took over as president in July 1984. At the time, Fisk was $4.1 million in debt, the price of bringing the dog-eared facilities back to minimum standards was put at $7 million, the creditors were beginning to feel litigious and the only remaining path appeared to be prayer. As Ponder recalls, "The morale was just in the pits, just in the pits...
...probably hear as many stories as teachers hear about why [students] can't do their homework--you know, the dog ate it," says Clifford...