Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would these programs actually work? How would nurses' unions react to this intrusion of essentially unpaid labor into their turf? How would construction workers' unions react to volunteers building "facilities for the handicapped," or for "waste treatment and recycling?" Furthermore, the Wexlers and the Woffords ignore a fundamental ideal while struggling to revive others: freedom of choice. The youth of this nation are no less moral than others, despite their lack of enthusiasm for do-good voluntarism. This nation had a draft for only 30 of its 204 years and patriotism survived undaunted; until now no one has said that...
...When you have an ideal, it makes no sense to go around saying' that's not what we meant.' In the real world, ideas are what they become," he said...
Andrew H. Delbanco '73 of Dunster House and Cambridge received an honorable mention for his historic essay, "Community: The Persistance of an American Ideal...
...United Islamic Revolutionary Council: "We believe in democracy and modernization, and the majority of Afghans are with us." Countered Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, 32, the fervently traditionalist "Amir" of the long-established Islamic Party: "A pure Islamic system was established 14 centuries ago, and any regime that differs from that ideal is unacceptable." At the end of the loquacious jirga, as such a gathering of tribes is called, the only agreement the squabbling chieftains could reach was to appoint a delegation of three elderly mullahs for a fund-raising journey to Saudi Arabia...
...proposed the Business School use more traditional teaching techniques in some fields, arguing that the case method "does not provide an ideal way of communicating concepts and analytical methods." Bok emphasized teaching students about the pressures on businesses from the outside--from government, special interest groups, and the community--and said the case method less effectively teaches such subjects...