Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they haven't taken a language before, I would say stay away from the mainstream ones," he advises. "Take Ukrainian or something--where everyone starts at the same level...
When the Labor Department announced the U.S. unemployment figures for April, the news was so good it might be bad. The jobless rate fell to 5.4%, down from 5.6% in March, and the lowest level since June 1974. That was encouraging to those who found work, but the news raised fears of renewed inflation. Reason: pressure on the job market could lead to a widespread rise in wages that, in turn, could boost prices...
...feel that Harvard can increase appointments at all levels using the existing pool. There are highly talented minority senior level candidates across the nation. Their presence would motivate minorities at all levels, and would especially encourage undergraduates to pursue academia as a career...
...occult and the mystic have often been correlated with times of social stress, such as during the height of the Dark Ages, and I fear this is one more sign of a "malaise" we have been trying to deny. The casual acceptance of ignorant superstition at the highest political level speaks of an intellectual retreat, for which the Reagan Administration has often been criticized. We have seen the emergence of a blind faith that "it"--the debt, the decaying environment, the nuclear menance, the drug trade--will all work out somehow, as if by magic; perhaps by the same kind...
Members of the cheerleading squad say they believe that if they can reach a level of athleticism and expertise that previous squads have been unable to achieve, then the department might support them. But department officials say they doubt the cheerleaders' level of support will change any time in the near future...