Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Desegregation will help foster this ideal. Willie says that in general most Black colleges focus first on teaching service to society, secondly on actual instruction, and lastly on research and developing new knowledge. Most white colleges and universities have the opposite priorities. Desegregating these schools should ideally allow these philosophies to merge. "I've come to the conclusion that school desegregation has been the best experience this nation has ever had in terms of generating new educational thrusts for all people," Willie says...
...Cyrus Vance, was Brzezinski's bitterest bureaucratic foe, patiently studied his briefing books. Not once did he betray his annoyance. Staunch discretion and a willingness to let others take credit have been the building blocks of Christopher's career. Those qualities, say admirers, have made him an ideal chief negotiator for the Iranian hostage situation. Quiet and imperturbably dogged, he is the master of thankless tasks...
...nine-month-old civil war by helping President Goukouni Oueddei to defeat his rival. Defense Minister Hissene Habre. The proposed Libya-Chad merger thus appeared less a union between consenting sovereign nations than an outright Libyan annexation of the impoverished, landlocked country of 4.5 million. Chad is an ideal launching position for his expansionist dream of a Saharan empire that would stretch from the Atlantic...
...believe," Stevens wrote, "as unhesitatingly as I believe in anything, in the efficacy and necessity of fact meeting fact - with a background of the ideal...
Gray said she liked the idea of working in the present Varsity Club, because the present office space in the Holyoke Center is "not large enough" and because the new site is "ideal for History and Literature's needs...