Word: generall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Core Curriculum, the brainchild of Dean Rosovsky's 1974 review of undergraduate education and five years of professorial debate and intensive faculty committee work, will be phased in over the next three years to replace the ailing 34-year-old General Education (Gen Ed) program. Under the Core, the three-part Gen Ed requirement--Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities--will become five sections--Literature and the Arts, Historical Study, Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning, Foreign Cultures, and Science...
...last week picked General Motors as its "target" for a strike if an industry contract is not reached by the Sept. 14 deadline. Unlike the four confrontations, all of which ended in strikes, the prebargaining negotiations remained uncharacteristically restrained and calm, and prospects for a no-strike settlement seem reasonable...
Players in the game can pile up examples but still have difficulty arriving at any generality. Decadence, in one working definition, is pathology with social implications: it differs from individual sickness as pneumonia differs from plague. A decadent act must, it seems, possess meaning that transcends itself and spreads like an infection to others, or at least suggests a general condition of the society. Decadence (from the Latin decadere, "to fall down or away," hence decay) surely has something to do with death, with a communal taedium vitae; decadence is a collection of symptoms that might suggest a society exhausted...
...facts--very selectively. The responsibility for Chrysler's failure, according to its own fact sheets, rests squarely on the federal government. Boggs says that the massive expenditures required to meet the government's pollution, safety and fuel economy standards have hit his client harder than its larger competitors, General Motors and Ford, and will eventually put Chrysler out of business...
Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, said yesterday the test will show "how in general freshmen write before they get started...