Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trudy Hammer, associate principal at the Emma Willard School says that as a result of Gilligan's findings on female moral development, the school is in the process of overhauling the curriculum and placing more of an emphasis on collaborative learning and lesson the more autonomous competitive techniques. "We're trying to move away from the male way of doing things," she says...
...next test of Contadora's success is expected to come in mid-July. A group of Central American deputy foreign ministers intends to hammer out a negotiating text for the delayed draft treaty. Depending on the outcome, the much praised, little understood Contadora process may take another significant step forward...
...hand. Here, after all, is the entire challenge: as heads of state and their armies go about their customary business of covert operations, assassinations or gas attacks, a group of young people in shorts would like to show how long they can jump, how far they can toss a hammer, how accurately they can shoot a ball into a basket. Can the mighty nations conspire to let them have their way? Is the technology there, the power? Putting things in terms of bureaucratic efficiency: If governments cannot make a foot race work, what can they...
...that some 500 Mondale delegates should be disqualified because they were chosen with the help of "delegate committees," groups set up with money mostly from labor political action committees (PACS). Mondale has disbanded these ill-advised committees and even promised to give the money back, but Hart plans to hammer away at the issue. He has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission, and he keeps goading Mondale to return the money (which Mondale claims is about $300,000 but the Hart camp hints is at least twice as much). So far, both voters and the press have...
...Icelandic peasants who found a skull in a cemetery and suspected it might be that of the poet Egill. "Its great thickness made them feel certain it was," he writes, but "to be doubly sure they put it on a wall and hit it hard blows with a hammer." When it did not break, "they were convinced that it was in truth the skull of the poet and worthy of every honor...