Word: generality
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While it may be absurd and naive to extract from a small pool of Harvard students the beginnings of a general nationwide trend, it is quite likely that some genius will do so in order to argue that American college students have emerged from their self-absorbed visions of money and grandeur. Be on the lookout for some "Latest on the Nation's Campuses" feature stories proclaiming a "New Generation of American Students...
...correctly predicted that they would produce large deficits. Since the two candidates differed so little on issues, Gray tried a negative campaign aimed mainly at Jeffords' acceptance of money from groups he helped. Eleven days before accepting $5,000 from a Teamsters PAC in 1987, Jeffords asked Attorney General Edwin Meese not to put the racket-ridden union under federal trusteeship. (Meese did so anyway.) A former state legislator and attorney general, Jeffords kept intact his record of never having lost a statewide election...
...general sense of well-being went a long way toward carrying the day for Bush. When asked about the future of the economy, 28% of those questioned by NBC said they thought it would be better, 16% said worse, and 48% said about the same. Dukakis won 73% of the small minority of pessimists, but Bush captured 61% of the optimists and 58% of the middle group. And Ronald Reagan had coattails: of the 53% who approved of the job the President is doing, 86% voted for Bush. The Vice President also got a tremendous boost from his ! resume. Those...
...General Manager: Barbara M. Mrkonic...
...difficult to diagnose. And the stigma of seeing a psychiatrist prevents many disturbed people from seeking help. Now the National Institute of Mental Health has completed the most extensive study ever of U.S. mental-health problems, and its conclusions are startling. The study, published in the November Archives of General Psychiatry, concluded that about one-third of all Americans suffer from an acute mental illness at some point in their lives...