Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your article "Peering into the Poverty Gap" [Nov. 15] you express the opinion that people will need early exposure to computers in order to achieve success in modern society. The primary skills that will be needed in any profession, computer-related or not, are understanding English, familiarity with high-level mathematics, and the ability to comprehend situations and solve problems. Computer programming is not a basic requirement. Modern computer science was developed by scientists and engineers who were not exposed to computers until after the seventh grade...
...Draft registration-resistors--for the 480,000 unregistered men and the handful of men who have been unjustly singled out for prosecution by the Justice Department. It is important that those of us who have views that differ from HRC attend this forum and utilize this opportunity to express our views. In this way we can turn HRCC's forum into a proper use of our rights to free expression and association as guaranteed by our Constitution. Jeane Wirka '86 Nicholas Horton '86 Heidi Meyer '84 Barry Zellen '85 Robert Serscher '83 Heather Ecker '86 Peter Bologh '86 Members...
North House Master Hanna Hastings, a committee member, agreed, saying. "The group decided that we would feel more uninhibited and freer to express our opinions if we were a smaller group...
People leaving the hall and heading for the subway stopped to express regrets and reminiscences. "I'm really sorry for him," said a grandmother. "The poor man didn't even have time to play with his grandchildren." Said an engineer: "We used to complain some, bitch about this and that, and tell jokes about the old man. But now that Brezhnev is dead I feel sad because he conveyed a sense of security and stability." One middle-aged Russian intellectual recalled a different scene, when Stalin lay in state in the House of Trade Unions. Then the streets outside were...
...allocations will be the Soviet consumer. Accustomed to a steady, though scarcely dramatic, rise in the standard of living under Brezhnev, Soviet citizens may have to settle for no further improvement in the 1980s. But they are not likely to rebel openly. Lacking any genuine forum in which to express dissatisfaction, Soviet consumers will probably do little more than grumble. Andropov, with his KGB background, may deal more harshly with strikes or other eruptions of anger that might occur. Says Historian Walter Laqueur: "Expect tighter discipline rather than liberalism, but expect some economic reforms...