Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview with The Crimson, KSG Dean Joseph S. Nye said he wanted to decrease the percentage of students admitted directly from college from 20 to 15 percent in an effort to make classroom discussions more pragmatic and less theoretical...
...long expansion is coming to an end. "It certainly looks like people were overly optimistic about the Southeast Asian economies," says Baumohl. "They pegged their currencies close to the U.S. dollar, but they didn't have the same strong conditions there that the U.S. is experiencing." In a surprise effort to stop the slide, Malaysia last week restricted stock trading. But that further scared investors, worsening the fall...
...thinking, and trying to clarify my own thinking about where I should be going, and where the world is going. Until recently I didn't feel the need to reflect, but I really do feel the need to spend more time on reflection. It takes a lot of effort, and I am frankly stumped on some issues." He is married to Susan Weber Soros, a former art magazine publisher who runs Bard College's respected Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, in Manhattan, which is partly funded by her husband. They have two preteenage children...
Krauthammer is mistaken. If Israel backs away from the negotiating table now, the terrorists will have achieved their objective: interrupting the peace process. No one expects Israel to ignore terrorism or cease attempting to prevent it. But by suspending the peace talks, Israel will ensure that any effort to resume the negotiations will again be met with violence. If the talks continue, however, the terrorists' acts will be rendered futile. Negotiating with terrorists is "obscene," as Krauthammer says, but it is far better than a full retreat, which would mean the terrorists win. JONATHAN FONTENOT Lake Charles...
...style of macho in-your-face policing, crime did not decline. But when, as a result of widespread and bitter criticism in the King case, the L.A.P.D. retreated from such aggressive policing, crime did dip. Crime also dropped in cities practicing community policing, which I define as a partnership effort with neighborhood groups in solving such problems as noisy bars, crack houses and prostitution. As police chief for 15 years in San Jose, Calif., I saw this approach succeed many times where indiscriminate crackdowns had failed. San Jose became the safest large city in America, while maintaining excellent police relations...