Word: effects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prof. Richard Haass and his pro-George Bush colleagues here at Harvard agree that the country is substantially "better off" now, when homeless people are sleeping against the walls of Harvard Yard, what can we expect by way of effective and humane public policy from this or any federal administration? Derek Bok, in several letters to the Harvard community over the last couple of years, has focused on the moral effect of institutions of higher learning, with the conclusion that practice (by administrators and faculty) is more important than precept in influencing the moral behavior of students...
Thompson acknowledges the impact film had on his youth, saying, "There's no describing now the effect that Easy Rider had on us kids. It was really powerful....The Graduate is every college graduate's dream." One sees the influence of these films in 1969, whose two main characters have the timely posters from these films on their walls...
...unclear last night what effect the steering committee's decision not to insure the show would have. Schwartz was unavailable for comment...
...great imposition to ask United States citizens to learn the nation's native language. After all, learning a new language hardly seems too much to ask in exchange for the benefits of living in a free society. And having pockets of foreign-speaking people might have a divisive effect on the unity of the nation, the referenda supporters claimed...
ADMINISTRATION officials are quick to note that section size is more a question of budgetary concerns than pedagogical philosophy. Nothing could be further from the truth: by not spending its resources on smaller sections, Harvard is in effect opting for a pedagogical agenda that sacrifices undergraduate education...