Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they don't provide for student input into University decisions, they'll have a dangerous situation on their hands ...They probably realize it's in their own best interest to work with the Student Assembly instead of ad hoc demonstrations. This will funnel student energies so that they are less emotional. Whether that takes away from the positive power of demonstrations is up to the quality of students in the Student Assembly. If the activists use this as their vehicle, it can be very effective...Student activists must make equal use of the assembly or it could become a buffer...
...above is a course description from the Harvard University Course Catalogue. Pretty boring, isn't it? What's worse, it's not really that informative. After all, it is only what the professor thinks his course is supposed to teach, no more and usually a lot less. It says absolutely nothing about what the course actually teaches and how well that is taught...
After eight years, my wife has just retired from her profession in order to raise a family. Before TIME arrived, we thought of ourselves as a more or less average middle-income family. How future shocking it was to learn that we had given up our membership in the new elite and joined the new poor before we realized either existed...
Some of the negotiating will take place in armchairs around the huge central fireplace in Aspen Lodge, where Nixon spent agonizing hours trying to construct a Watergate defense. Other sessions will be held less than a quarter mile up the road in Laurel Lodge, where the rectangular conference table has been replaced by a circular one. For these enlarged conferences, Vance, Vice President Walter Mondale, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and other key officials will be available, as will the top aides of the two other leaders...
...times sounds so mystical that Israelis snidely refer to him as sitting upon "his pharaonic throne." Preferring to deal in broad strokes and principles, Sadat quickly tires of the legalistic details that are often essential to translate a belief into a program. The Israeli Premier is no less visionary, but he is also a product of the Talmudic tradition. He almost seems to revel in analytical disputations about minutiae...