Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still seems more to be poised on the banks of the mainstream than to be swimming in its current. Its members are haunted by a feeling of alienation from the white majority with which they have so much in common, a sense that somehow they still do not quite fit in. They speak again and again of "living in two worlds." In one they are judged by their credentials and capabilities. In the other, race still comes first...
...senior Allen Bourbeau, whose rights are held by the Philadelphia Flyers. "The money and the extra stuff, like the location and the people and the organization, are factors [in Europe]. In the NHL, it's money and the two-way contract and how they think of me, how I fit in their organization...
Administrators will study whether the Core courses--specifically tailored to fit a 1978 plan for providing a sound undergraduate education--succeed in teaching "modes of knowledge" and analysis of varying disciplines. But the review takes place amid continuing debate over the Core's fundamental premise of basing education on the "approaches to thinking" in a loose ordering of disciplines...
...couldn't fit more than six people around the dinner table," Evans says. "But being the governor in Washington, we lived in the governor's mansion, which meant we did an awful lot of entertaining. My wife was a partner in the whole effort...
...business ethics courses at Columbia, says he writes most of his own cases, and uses the B-School's "only if I'm desperate and can't come up with any of my own. It's not that I think Harvard's are poor, but they just don't fit my needs...