Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regardless of how they interpret the political motivation behind the impending cuts. Harvard educators agreed that the reductions signal a long-term trend of government withdrawal from supporting universities...
National Editor John Elson, who edited last year's special issue on the Soviet Union, was in charge of TIME'S American Renewal effort. Says he: "TIME has always tried to interpret the news as well as report it. This week we are going one step further-we are offering some possible solutions to the difficulties the nation faces." For his story on U.S. political institutions, Senior Writer Otto Friedrich returned to many of the themes explored in TIME'S 1976 Bicentennial issue, which he edited. "Defining the changing role and the ultimate power of the Congress...
THOSE WHO INTERPRET this movie as glorifying mercenaries have missed the point, but their confusion underscores one other theme. Mercenary swagger, the strut of a man loaded down with a gun and with the realization that he is running through the night toward his own death, is very close, almost identical, to the swagger of a revolutionary. Both are tough men; both live too near death to allow for love and compassion, unless it is the kind of love that takes half an hour. When Americans talk about "those barbaric Iranians (North Vietnamese, Chinese, Nicaraguans)," they mean the excess...
...council was reluctant to spend university funds in the attempt to unionize the faculty because the state "could interpret it as using University money for political purposes." Reed Whittemore, faculty council chairman, said. In addition, the incoming chairwoman of the council and other members do not favor unionization...
Looking back at the election in the fall, voters do not interpret Reagan's impressive victory as an ideological mandate. Rather, 63% feel Reagan won the election because the voters rejected the Carter Administration. Only 24% think the election result was a mandate for more conservative policies...