Word: ernest
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...country, the closings will have both an economic and a psychological impact, especially in the short term as communities struggle to find ways to convert the properties to civilian use. Predictably, politicians from affected areas were quick to squawk. "It could bring economic devastation to the area," said Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, which is scheduled to lose its Charleston Naval Station. But Congress has cleverly set up a system that allows the Pentagon to push through its closures while insulating legislators from much of the responsibility or political fallout. In 1990 it established an eight-member bipartisan commission...
Warren Professor of History Ernest R. May also said the school would temporarily feel the impact of the departures. "In the short run it will make it very difficult," he said. "They will be sorely missed...
...guys," says this aide, "and the early signs are troubling." Consider just a bit of the dust already kicked up by some Senate potentates, as described by this official: Paul Sarbanes has "privately signaled that he'll oppose the plan if the freeze on pay for federal workers survives"; Ernest Hollings "has hinted he won't go along unless we cut the deficit even more"; Sam Nunn "hasn't committed to the defense cuts, and without him, forget about it"; Robert Byrd "is dubious, to put it mildly, about any spending cuts at all, which means each of them...
...Ernest B. Attah '66, who came to Harvard as a Nigerian international student the following fall, says AAAAS had to adopt creative membership policies to meet University guidelines for student groups...
Unlike the established literature on nationalism, Greenfeld's Nationalism does not opt for the short compact theses of scholars such as Benedict Anderson (Imagined Communities) and Ernest Gellner (Nations and Nationalism) but rather delves into the particulars of five nations in a search for the driving forces behind nationalism. Greenfeld devotes a chapter each to England, France, Russia, Germany and America, and concludes that there is no one nationalism, but that there are "nationalisms...