Word: forthings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attempts to move from describing problems to prescibing solutions. Readers expecting a visionary plan for rechanneling economic and social pressures to push universities in the right direction will be disappointed by Bok's list of stopgaps. It is as though his natural cautiousness has discouraged him from putting forth any daring ideas that might later prove flawed. Instead, he sticks to time-worn exhortations: Schools should lobby vigorously for government funding. Administrators and government officials should work together to develop "effective leadership." Trustees should be more aggressive in setting priorities...
...political leaders on both sides were caught off guard. While the "masses" did not lose a moment, organizing a sort of national jumble sale, changing money, swapping rumors, pulling down fences and repairing bridges, the statesmen scurried from summit to summit, looking more and more nonplussed as they poured forth a torrent of declarations, cautionary tales and contingency plans...
...clerk who would then give me what we call a bench memo. If the case was assigned to me to write, that law clerk in all probability would submit in triple-space form a draft of an opinion that reflected the views I had already set forth. Before a draft opinion was circulated to the other Justices, all four of my law clerks would review it, and we would all work it over very carefully...
...make the club scene. In Baltimore an octogenarian goes to her weekly polka dance; she has not missed one in nearly 30 years. A Manhattan socialite lends credence to the belief that the wrong people have money: "I'm always out in the country riding my horse and so forth on the weekends, and even if I weren't I can't imagine who would be around to invite for a Saturday party." Every now and then some adventurous soul might try the greatest diversion of them all: reading, just for the pleasure...
When the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was formed in 1983, ending a Civil War- era schism, one of the first tasks was to set forth its beliefs. That effort, complicated by the church's theological diversity, bore fruit last week as a national assembly of the 2.9 million-member denomination gave overwhelming approval to an 80-line "Brief Statement of Faith." After endorsement from regional units, it will join the ten other doctrinal statements that guide Presbyterians. The cleverly crafted text seems traditional enough to prevent the conservative opposition that killed a modernized creed in the Southern branch 14 years...