Word: fosters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Year" award was established in 1963, 12 years after the creation of its female counterpart. Past recipients of the awards include Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Paul Newman, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford...
...education is not just what happens in school; it takes place at home, on the street, in the wider community and especially nowadays as a result of daily exposure to the mass media. And yet, of course, we allocate certain facets of education to schools. We expect teachers to foster the basic literacies; to convey important insights and practices from our own society; to introduce youngsters to crucial bodies of knowledge and to the ways in which scholars have approached them--the "mental habits" of the historian, the mathematician, the scientist. We hope as well that teachers will serve...
While observers agree that students have become more community-oriented, they are less sure how to foster a sense of belonging...
...past, the council's efforts to foster campus-wide spirit have been few and far between. And the attempts the council has made have failed stir students' enthusiasm...
...Americans, get it so wrong? The answer begins with the end of the cold war, when the collapse of the Soviet Union gave them the opportunity to focus on the culture wars at home. Optimistic libertarians, the kind who believe that free choice is good and that free markets foster it, are still to be found in the Republican Party. But the more influential voices on the right these days are bleaker. They see America becoming a cesspit of promiscuity and godlessness and blue dresses with who knows what on them, a place where some sexual interludes have...