Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidates, you ought to rectify this situation. We ask that you send letters apologizing for your interference in the election to the alumni. Additionally, having in effect campaigned against the Alumni Against Apartheid, we ask that you provide them with equal access to the electorate. By allowing them to explain their qualifications for the board (in response to your charge that their campaign for the board makes them inappropriate candidates) and by including their arguments for divestiture (in response to the statement of the University's current investment policy), you help to restore a sense of fairness in the election...
...Asked to explain what could motivate students to hurl such a charge against the CRR, Professor of Philosophy Warren D. Goldfarb '69 says "bad memory...
...economic summit that Japan will host in May, Nakasone accepted a report by a Cabinet advisory committee that outlined ways to wean the Japanese away from an export-led economy by boosting local consumption. During his scheduled three-hour session with President Reagan, the Prime Minister was expected to explain how his government would translate those aims into policy. Said Nakasone: "Japan can no longer be an island of solitary prosperity, with a large current account imbalance depending on exports...
LaRouche evaded straight answers with accusations and complicated conspiracy theories. When an NBC reporter asked him to explain the finances that support his organization and his heavily guarded 170-acre estate near Leesburg, LaRouche shot back, "I can't talk to a drug pusher like you." What about his reputation for anti-Semitism? That, he explained, resulted from his linking of Jewish Gangster Meyer Lansky to Banker David Rockefeller, which in turn led to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, to fugitive Financier Robert Vesco and to a cocaine connection that involved, among others, assorted Bulgarians...
...research university. Yet ingenuity may produce ways of improving feedback without requiring unreasonable amounts of faculty time. Greater efforts can be made to train graduate students to give more helpful, detailed comments on papers and exams. Professors can supply model answers or analyses of exam questions to explain the elements of a competent answer. Computers open up impressive opportunities for allowing students to test their comprehension of new and difficult material. These possibilities only underscore the need for more collective thought to find ways of giving adequate feedback that do not make excessive demands on faculty time...