Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telling even the most gullible undergraduate that all section leaders are roughly equal, let alone qualified, once these statistics are readily available. Such a plan would wind up driving the worst teachers out of the TF market. Ec 10 especially should practice the free market dogma it preaches...
...Marxist label on their economic experiments. Lenin's decision to revive the private sector during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s figures prominently in the new Soviet economics. Beijing ideologists invoke the theory that China is at a "primary level of socialism" to keep Marxist dogma intact. True reform is meant to provide more bread and steel for the masses, not merely bird whistles...
Tonegawa proved that cells accomplish the Herculean task of making antibodies to order by reshuffling parts of the genes that govern the production of antibodies, the cellular building blocks of the immune system. He likens the process to rearranging the boxcars on a freight train. "The dogma was that the order of the genes in any one person is immutable," he says. "The freight train never shifts its cars around." In spite of prevailing theory, Tonegawa found that the "cars" did indeed rearrange themselves in a multitude of different configurations to make the antibodies that fight off diseases. His work...
...upswept roof edges and exposed concrete beams formed into abstract "timbers." Isozaki's buildings of the '70s and '80s are the converse: instead of Japanizing a universal architectural style, he takes inspiration and ideas from anywhere he chooses, his odd, exciting syntheses unbound either by traditional or by antitraditional dogma. "I consider myself not a Japanese first," Isozaki says, "but rather an internationalist...
...Fundamentalists may have made one enduring point. The Alabama case helped dramatize the extent to which many textbooks have been purged not merely of religious dogma but also of references to the role of religion in history. "The textbook manufacturers are going to be calling in consultants to see what they should be doing about this," predicted Law Professor Michael McConnell of the University of Chicago. "The consequence is going to be a more balanced approach." Deciding how to teach the historical facts of religion without promoting its tenets is a delicate task. Nonetheless, it is one that a nation...