Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this a little irrelevant," you may ask, "given that Harvard doesn't have a 'Great Books' course...
...hand we have Moral Reasoning. This year, for the first time in recent memory, a class will be offered on Confucian thought. Clearly, this is a step in the right direction, given that every other Moral Reasoning course is very white, overwhelmingly male and extremely dead...
...diplomatic source told The Associated Press the United Nations received unconfirmed reports that Higgins was shot to death after the shooting down of the Iranian airbus by the U.S.S. Vincennes on July 3, 1988. At the time, no specific date for the death was given...
People respond to incentives. Reward them for producing the most possible shoes, and they will produce a huge number of identical small shoes -- identical, because it's easier; small, because they can get more shoes out of a given supply of leather. The only way to produce exactly the shoes people want, or close to it, is to place the order through the free market...
...region. Neither side releases casualty figures, yet hundreds of men have died from combat, weather, altitude and accidents, and thousands have been injured. Says the general commanding the Indian sector: "This is an actual war in every sense of the word. There is no quarter asked and no quarter given...