Word: honors
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...While it is not legally binding, it is hopedthat a pro-union vote, together with the week-longstrike, will persuade administrators to honor therequest of its teaching staff and negotiate acontract in good faith," a Federation statementreads...
During the three months in 1993 when she was sleeping with her English professor, Lisa Topol lost 18 pounds. She lost interest in her classes at the University of Pennsylvania, lost her reputation as an honor student and wondered if she was losing her mind. If she tried to break up, she thought, he could ruin her academic career. Then she made some phone calls and learned a bit more about the professor she had come to view as a predator. In June she will tell her story in federal court, but even before a verdict is rendered, the case...
...Newt, the Washington evoked in Alan Brinkley's masterly The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Alfred A. Knopf; 371 pages; $27.50) seems like another planet. In the late 1930s and '40s, the word liberal was a badge of honor, not an epithet. Federal officials castigated "economic royalists," denounced predatory monopolists and seemed to regard the words free enterprise as a cloak for corporate exploitation. Big Business, not Big Government, was seen by Americans as the source of economic injustice...
...World War I and the Crash of 1929, the Big Apple (yes, they called it that even then) emerged as the world's most powerful city in finance, music making, theater, literature--practically everything, in fact, except politics. Then, as now, New York had the dubious honor of being the world's largest city that was not also a seat of government...
...characteristics, and people had to apply and be interviewed in order to get in. Because the selection process was competitive, a house almost could not fail to admit students who would contribute the most and savor house life to the fullest. Each house resident would consider it an honor to live in that house and sense the responsibility to carry the tradition on. In contrast, what today's chaotic and confusing lottery process brings about is that we might no longer cherish the pride of living in a certain house, because the computer gets us there. When total randomization takes...