Word: essaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...views were formed during the years I spent on nuclear weapons; in my struggle against testing of these weapons in the atmosphere, underwater or in space; in my public activities and writing; in the human-rights movement; and in Gorky isolation. My fundamental ideas were reflected in a 1968 essay, "Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom," but since then life has brought many changes that have forced me to modify my position and make it applicable to specific circumstances. I am referring in particular to recent changes in the domestic life and foreign policy of the U.S.S.R...
...Harvard junior, who transferred from Brandeis University this fall, is one of 10 grand prize winners in Honeywell's annual essay contest, which invites American students to predict the future of the aerospace industry...
HANOVER, N.H.--Remember when, in seventh grade, you were first taught how to write a compositional essay? The conclusion, we all were told, should sum up the major points of the paper while adding some new touches...
...expectations on their traders and bankers without giving them a solid grounding in old-fashioned ethical values. By pushing salaries and bonuses to outlandish heights, investment firms have turned money into the ultimate measure of success. Declares Felix Rohatyn, senior partner of the investment firm Lazard Freres, in an essay for the New York Review of Books: "Too much money is coming together with too many young people who have little or no institutional memory, or sense of tradition, and who are under enormous pressure to perform in the glare of Hollywood-like publicity...
...actual and the psychic coincide. It is also a killing field. Kenya, infested by poachers and suffering the highest rate of population growth in the world, has become a proving ground for extinction. Can the wild animals survive? And if they vanish, what exactly will have been lost? See ESSAY...