Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is another very important aspect of this flexibility: it allows for a certain amount of stratification in the teaching profession. The educators connected with the Team-Teaching Project feel that some "differentiation of prestige and function among the teachers" might increase initiative, and thus the efficiency of instruction, while at the same time dignifying the role of the superior teacher...
...government by 1968 for Kenya. To regain his political luster, Mboya promptly announced a new party of his own-the all-African Kenya Independence Movement. But last week fate dealt Tom another setback: the Kenya government nipped K.I.M. in the bud by refusing to grant it a license to function throughout the colony...
...lifetime occasion when politicians disagree, and he must choose a Prime Minister to form a government. Vanier was picked by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, formally appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, and in all important respects serves as the Queen's standin, exercising her powers and prerogatives. His main function is to exemplify the unifying symbol of the Crown in his travels across the land. His predecessor set an arduous example. Retiring Vincent Massey, 72, in his 7½ years as Canada's first native-born Governor General, entertained 75,000 Canadians at Government House in Ottawa, traveled...
...common agreement the University is "secular" and its teaching function toward the undergraduate demands that religious preconceptions be discounted as much as possible. Gilmore gives an example of the different ways in which a church and a university handle momentous intellectual questions: "Augustine would never say to Pelagius, 'Let us examine your position on grace, Pelagius...'as Socrates would say to Thrasmymachus, 'Let us examine your position on virtue.' The atmosphere of the University," Gilmore holds, "must be the Platonic rather than the Augustinian...
Last week, under a constitutional provision empowering the President to assume control of any state government that is unable to function in accordance with the constitution, Prasad formally took over troubled Kerala until new elections could be held...