Word: dual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision brought a flood of protests. Joshua Nkomo, Mugabe's principal political rival, denounced the move as reminiscent of arbitrary arrests made under the white-dominated rule of Prime Minister Ian Smith. Four of the six men hold dual Zimbabwe-British citizenship, and last week the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed its "very great concern" over the incident...
...This dual challenge to gain both credibility and attention, members agree, makes hard work the crucial ingredient. It is needed for both widespread student support and devoted membership willing to invest time week after week in doing what has never been done at Harvard before--achieve a lasting, viable means for students to be viewed as partners in the establishment of the College's policies and priorities...
Cast up in America after the war, Brill founded his school on the shore of one of the Great Lakes. The institution boasted a dual curriculum: "the Priceless Legacy of Scripture and Commentaries," and social studies and French. As Brill puts it, "The waters of Shiloh springing from the head of Western Civilization." But the experiment flops. Hopelessly inept as a pedagogue and judge of children, Brill blames his school's failure on its students, whom he dismisses as "commoners, weeds, the children of plumbers." Given such contempt, he fails to recognize genius when it comes his way. Beulah...
...myth much advertised in the West, for example, that the vast majority of Japanese workers enjoy lifetime employment, a fondly cooperative relationship with management and a mutual delight in the company song. True, there is less than 3% unemployment. But, in fact, Japan has a schizophrenic business system, a dual economy. The myth applies to 30% of it, in the high-tech and highly productive companies. But the other 70% of Japanese workers labor in smaller, considerably less efficient industries. There, they receive low wages and few financial benefits, if any. Such workers bounce from job to job within that...
Most family doctors double as pharmacists. That dual role was officially sanctioned more than 100 years ago, when druggists were scarce; it continues today even though Japan also has more than 120,000 pharmacists. One of the most severe criticisms of Japanese medicine made by Westerners is that family doctors overprescribe. An American scholar who recently consulted a Japanese doctor for a mildly sprained ankle came away with a muscle relaxant, an anti-inflammatory drug, a stomach powder to ease the side effects of the drugs, and a foot plaster. In the U.S., he probably would have been told...