Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is another, troubling implication of the universities' practices and their defense of them. Who decides that education of a particular kind is of equal value and should not be bid for? Here is where arrogance comes in. Somehow the 23 members of the overlap group--the Northeastern elite colleges and universities--have already decided who makes up the top level of education, and how much that top education should cost. Do they then have the right to exclude other educators from their cozy arrangment? Do the 60-plus schools under investigation not become the "education establishment...
...York Stock Exchange, "All of thesystems throughout the exchange have functionedextremely well throughout the day," chiefspokesperson Richard Torrenzano said. "There hasbeen no delay of any kind...
...added that in the last five years, art history has begun to question traditional assumptions about art, drawing on the strength of disciplines around it. "The kind of questions I work with are often more familiar in other disciplines like literature and film criticism...
...raised in the industrial town of Monroe, Mich. On his way to play football one day, Vic, then 11, passed the local tennis courts just as someone opened a can of balls. "You could hear the fizz," he recalls. "I could smell the rubber. It was an amazing kind of olfactory thing. I made up my mind I wanted one of those things...
...July, Kenya's President, Daniel arap Moi, set ablaze a twelve-ton mountain of illicit ivory -- 3,000 tusks worth $3 million. To those familiar with the plundering of Kenya's herds and the corruption in its wildlife department, the fire was a kind of exorcism. "If we go wrong here, hope will be lost in many parts of this continent," says Richard Leakey, who became head of the department in April. "If we go right here, there is a chance for things to happen elsewhere much more rapidly than any of us would have dared to believe...