Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another B-School faculty member said he hadthought Harvard would win, but "my odds have beendecreased. I think less surely that they wouldwin. I think the evidence seems damaging. It's alittle chancy...
American schools teach fewer foreign languages than those in other countries, they teach less non-American history, they teach less science and math. And these failings in the educational system have important consequences for America's political and economic relations with other countries...
...Americans cannot even make basic distinctions about the world's political makeup, then they are even less likely to have any understanding of the complex foreign policy issues which affect them...
...this kind of ignorance that furthers the division between society's governing elite and the citizens it seeks to serve. When the American education system produces geographical--and political and scientific--illiterates, elected officials become much less accountable to their constituents and much more liable to take reckless foreign policy stances. While President Reagan and his administration were trading arms for hostages in Iran, most Americans were unable to locate Iran...
Another key part of the filing by Lawson cites two letters from professors to McArthur which Jackson and Lawson say suggest that the dean was less than impartial during the almost one-month interval between two votes on Jackson's tenure, the first of which was much more favorable to her than the second...