Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curb inflation and to set this country back on the road to growth," World Bank President A.W. Clausen told a group assembled at Argentina's Central Bank last week. David Mulford, Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, declared during a visit last month that Argentina would be an ideal candidate for his government's new Baker loans (named after Treasury Secretary James Baker), which will provide low-interest funds to help Third World debtors stimulate long-term economic growth. Mulford is among many experts who clearly hope that Argentina will set an example for other distressed lenders...
Asani says his class is "the ideal teaching situation. I sort of believe that a teacher should not only know the student academically, but in a personal way. It's more like the traditional (in a European sense) student-mentor relationship or the tradition in the Islamic world where you sit with a guru and you learn thins on a one-to-one basis...
...planted the seeds of the geranium, supposedly the first one cultivated in the U.S. Said National Gallery Art Director J. Carter Brown: "It is the first truly American portrait by virtue of its celebration of a newfound confidence of Americans in their own capabilities." Brown called the work the "ideal first purchase" for a $55 million pool established for major acquisitions for the gallery. The painting was sold by Pauline Woolworth, of the variety-store family. She and her husband Norman bought Rubens in 1958 for a real five-and- dime price: less than...
...most of its history, the Harvard Law School represented an ideal of legal traditions based on intellect and scholarship. In the past few decades the rampant greediness of its professors has become manifest. The Harvard Law School has been, for quite a while, a place from which forays into television, etc., have been launched by its publicity-crazed faculty...
...about passion and virginity--though not of the Hail Mary, controversially-Catholic variety that recently has been thrust into the headlines. Here the reputation of virginity--protagonist Beatrice-Joanna Vermandero's (Diane D'Aquila) obsession to keep her honor intact--leads to doom and destruction. Female chastity is the ideal that justifies the most heinous atrocities...