Word: eschewal
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...past quarter-century, with members on average voting the party line 88% of the time in 2005, according to Congressional Quarterly. That cohesion enabled Democrats to hasten President Bush's slide in the polls when they blocked his plan to reform Social Security by allowing retirees to eschew guaranteed benefits in favor of private accounts. Bush's approval rating remains depressed--38% in a TIME poll last week--and the Democrats are in their best position to win the House since Republicans took control...
...obsession with shrinking government - has often backfired. While the state's threadbare child welfare agency is rife with neglect and malfeasance, critics complain that he has handed out millions of dollars in unorthodox tax breaks to companies that donate to private schools. Jeb, a morally conservative Roman Catholic, may eschew his brother's work habits, but he shares his Manichean world view - evidenced last year during his polarizing crusade to keep Terri Schiavo alive...
...complexity of the world requires us to have a better understanding of the relationships and connections between all fields.” A society more fragmented than today’s, Gregorian argues, has more of a dependence on experts and more of a temptation to eschew judgment in favor of accepted opinion. A fragmented knowledge defers answers to the “big questions” because it has decided that no one is qualified to answer them. Yet the big questions always remain...
...begin, Harvard once had an undergraduate engineering school. It began in 1847 as part of the Lawrence Scientific School and was, in 1938, completely subsumed into FAS. Once absorbed, engineering was the only part of the College to eschew formal examinations for undergraduates. (Physics and chemistry, both subjects in the Scientific School, had mandated them). It was also the only discipline to confer undergraduate degrees besides the A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) and S.B. (Bachelor of Science) degrees—in Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, and Metallurgical Engineering. And even the S.B. degree in 1906 did not even require Latin...
...teams share the same essential strengths. They eschew boring defensive security for the pleasures of relentless attack. Both exude an irresistible cosmopolitanism. Or rather, Barcelona, founded by a Swiss man, has always exuded cosmopolitanism, and Arsenal learned to do so under the stewardship of Arsne Wenger, its urbane French manager. Both combine their exciting international style with a heavy dose of localism. Arsenal coupled the Frenchman Thierry Henry and Dutch genius Dennis Bergkamp with an English-dominated back line. Barcelona fields true Catalan heroes such as Carles Puyol...