Word: fittest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Johanna A. Amianda '95, a Currier resident. "When it's raining and I've tried to get on the bus, I've gotten elbowed and pushed. Everyone wants to get on, but it gets so crowded that the driver has to shut the door. It's survival of the fittest...
...introducing the "survival of the fittest" concept, school choice would force the closure of weaker schools and induce struggling ones to renovate and restructure themselves. This would permit otherwise ineligible students to receive an education equal or comparable to that of their more affluent peers...
While the dean supported integration of Black and white populations, Malcolm X based his rhetoric on two "laws of the jungle," the conflict between natural enemies and the survival of the fittest...
...about future directions to perceive two very different governing philosophies. It simply is not true, as even many academics contend, that the candidates differ only at the margins. From Bush it is more of the same, a laissez-faire embrace of free markets, a scarcely subtle survival-of-the- fittest signal. The Republicans, it is clear, see nothing wrong with extending the Me decade indefinitely; no matter that Reagan's trickle-down nostrums, which were supposed to lift all boats, have so far lifted only yachts...
...Britain. The opposition Labour Party of Neil Kinnock, the Welsh laborer's son, has struggled to shed the albatross of radical socialism. Now the ruling Conservatives of Prime Minister John Major, the school dropout, are patching up the social safety nets scorned by Margaret Thatcher's survivalism of the fittest. With much less to choose between the two main parties, chances are good that neither will end up with a House of Commons majority...