Word: generationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the extinction of the fine art of lying ought to be lamented, public figures can still get by without the ability to lie. Look at Ronald Reagan. All you have to do is flash your charming smile and let your sincere but vague manner show through, and you too...
Even now, amid the gathering celebrations, his contributions provoke disagreement. Sir Stephen Spender, who was a member of the first generation of English poets to emerge in the shadow of Eliot's fame, calls him "perhaps the greatest poet of the 20th century." Donald Hall, who has published nine books...
Thomas Lunzer, a consultant at SRI, believes the proliferation of microcomputers in schools and homes has exacerbated the problem. A powerful technology became widely available without the development of a code of ethics to keep that power in check. "We're harvesting our first crop of a computer- literate generation...
"Boys," he says, "we're the choice of a new generation."
The agreement ends 15 years of land-claims wrangling and clears the way for the social and economic development of an area roughly the size of Texas. Besides land and cash, the native people will receive 10% of royalties from minerals, oil and gas that may lie beneath the tundra...