Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both candidates put service-oriented issues at the top of their agendas, stressing the importance of pragmatic, student-oriented policies such as campus security over more esoteric, political debates.
This year's campaigns reflect the council's shift in recent years towards more service-oriented issues, according to outgoing chair Robert C. Rhew '92. He says that, in the past, the council had taken a greater interest in "very practical approaches to things" instead of debating "esoteric" political issues...
Equally important, scientists should redouble efforts to help educate Congress, the press and the public about the importance and benefits of some of their more esoteric work. An example: in little publicized reports in science journals last month, three teams of researchers revealed that they had used genetic engineering to...
The negotiators were hardly ever that succinct, and their exchanges were described in communiques as full, frank, businesslike and useful. But in fact they often weren't terribly useful. So the two sides would go back to the one subject where they could accomplish something -- arms control -- and the exercise...
The Dreesmans' son Robert, born in 1947, was a husky but grimly introspective boy who became a perennial student. He took courses in pre-med, horticulture and psychology at various American colleges, and studied veterinary medicine in the Philippines, where he was briefly married. His esoteric hobbies ranged from beekeeping...