Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite having passed the monolith countlesstimes, we never noticed the Necco factory until aflat bike tire brought us to the repair shopacross the street. The building dates back to 1927and radiates an aura of factory functionalityyou'd expect in a 1950's New England manufacturingtown that was once the ideal of American industry...
That's because Americanism is not a hereditary tie but a shared ideal, and the Melting Pot is what keeps us together as one state, not by destroying our private identity, but by providing us with the common ground to work together...
With Fosters decades of experience, pro-choice stance and track record of preventing teenage pregnancy, he would be an ideal choice to fill the spot Jocelyn Elders left empty when she resigned under pressure in December due to another white House gaffe. He may never get the chance, however, because of mixed messages from a White House that can't get its act together...
Coming out of its two-week exam-period hiatus, the Crimson found itself locking arms with the defending Ivy League champion Quakers at Philadelphia--not exactly the ideal way to kick off a two-day road trip...
Perhaps it's a simply a cultural difference grounded in a Confucian ideal of self-sacrifice, learning and a subordination of the self to a collective, but the statements coming out of these supposedly free-thinking, liberated-from-their-molds individuals smack of brainlessness. Claims that peer pressure and parental pressure to go pre-med have influenced some students' decisions make them seem easily manipulable and thought-controlled. Horror stories about piano lessons and SAT prep courses come right out of an Amy Tan novel about her mother...