Word: granted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Program's largest impact on the College curriculum came in 1987 when the American Express Foundation awarded the Program a $1.5 million grant in order to give ethical issues a more prominent place in undergraduate courses. As a result, 44 ethics courses throughout the University were either developed or revised...
...University established a Committee on Women's Studies in 1978. The committee sponsored various colloquia and an annual Women's History Week and listed gender-related classes in a separate section of the course catalog but could not grant degrees...
...would have the voting public believe that "the center of all that afflicts our schools is a denial of free choice." They think special interest groups--read Democrats--have politicized education and, in doing so, have taken away power from the people. The solution? Abolish the Department of Education, grant families "choice" via vouchers, and empower parents, teachers and local school boards...
...bright lights of New York, the twin town of Providence, R.I. We gaze as Gatsby did to the green light on the end of the dock, but for us, like him, it is inaccessible. It represents a certain freedom that we, as Harvard students, find it difficult to grant ourselves. To do so would mean going against the work ethic that Harvard's Puritan founders successfully instilled in cobblestones of the pavement and the bricks of the buildings--and the more modern ethic of mandatory 60-hour work weeks...
...Hackman appears as world-class physician Lawrence Myrick, oozing menacing bonhomie, a quality this splendid actor has virtually patented, we have our suspicions. It's the extent and passion of the conspiracy he has mounted to protect his research that is surprising and scary. That air of earnest befuddlement Grant has deployed to such good comic effect in the past serves him--and us--very well in this very different context. He's willowy and vulnerable in a way we no longer expect to find in action-movie protagonists, and for this film his affect is the great redeeming virtue...