Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...character standing both figuratively and liberally above the Phrygian bone tied revolution Aries who surround him. His gruff manner endears, while Pszonisk's formality chills. One sees easily why crowds would flock to the moderate Danton. Still, Wajda makes clear the appeal of authority; Robespierre offers an ideal worth living and dying for and losses into the deal the coercive force of the guillotine...
...this difficult moment in the party's history, Kinnock was an ideal solution. With working-class roots deep in the black valleys of South Wales-his father was a coal miner, his mother a district nurse-he virtually grew up in the Labor Party. Though he was an indifferent student who eked out a degree from University College, Cardiff, he was keen on rugby, talk and political action. His wife, whom he met at the university, was so politically oriented that she refused a wedding band made of South African gold. Working together, the Kinnocks won Neil a safe...
...ideal policy statement would include all of these provisions'. Harvard's policy (as it appears on p. 75 of the Student Handbook) contains none of them. It states only that sexual harassment is "unacceptable" because it is "unprofessional behavior which seriously undermines the atmosphere of trust essential to the academic enterprise." The latter part of this statement is good, but it is still an understatement of the effects of sexual harassment. Furthermore, sexual harassment is far more than merely "unprofessional behavior." It is sex discrimination and it is illegal under federal...
...argument exists that the government, let alone private insurance companies, cannot possibly afford to help all the patients who need assistance. And few would insist that Medicaid and Medicare cover experimental operations; the possible costs appear unlimited. In an ideal world, funds might exist to combat all illnesses even on an experimental basis. Only in the real world, though, do children contract terminal diseases which they can't even pronounce...
Rippy said after the race that he was pleased with what he called the Crimson's "ideal performance," and his Co-Captain McNulty declared that the team was "right on schedule" for the Dartmouth meet...