Word: goals
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Boston's Larry Bird made only seven of 22 field-goal attempts and Detroit's Isiah Thomas hit just...
...involved obstacles was the 110 high hurdles. When I compared the height of the hurdles to the height of most of the athletes, I realized that only Manute Bol could possibly run the race without hurting himself. Maybe Spud Webb could run under the hurdles and achieve the same goal...
Fundamentally, you neglected the fact that CMES is a department of Harvard University, whose primary goal is the education of students. It is time to stop referring to a past scandal every time CMES is mentioned, and to start invoking the support of the Harvard community for this integral and important part of the University. Krisen Brustad Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Sarah Chayes History and Middle Eastern Studies Nadia El-Cheikh History and Middle Eastern Studies
...public opinion. According to public opinion polls, the interest of Americans in international matters steadily declined throughout the 1970s. By the early 1980s, only one international problem--defense policy and the threat of war--ranked among the ten issues that Americans considered most important. In 1986, the foreign policy goal most important to the public was protecting the jobs of American workers, while strengthening international organizations, promoting human rights, and encouraging the growth of democracy abroad lagged far behind. Three-quarters of the public agreed that "we should no longer think so much in international terms but concentrate more...
...rhetorical effect rather than a cause" observes that we become what we choose to read through the filtering composite "differences" of our individual experience. Johnson proposes that the politically correct reading lies in that which "encounters and propagates the surprise of otherness." The search for this "otherness" becomes the goal of interpretation...