Word: manifolds
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...nation's longest and most unpopular war. Some top-ranking officers are still bitter that the politicians interfered with their conduct of the war. Their resentment contributes to a crisis of the military spirit that infects all ranks and may well be more difficult to handle than the manifold problems of race, drugs and discipline...
Cheatham said that the chief virtue of the mini-schools would be to prepare children for "the trauma of 'occupation obsolescence'" by training them for "manifold occupations, related to their personal interests and abilities." Cheatham noted that occupation obsolescence may force children to change jobs several times during their lives...
...Thompson, Hobsbawm and some others have turned attention to the "people at the bottom." They do not treat working people, peasants, or the "lower classes" as a necessary and incumbent labor force or as the passive victims of prevailing policy. Instead, they are engaged in exploring the varied and manifold historical responses of the people at the bottom to their own condition, the political acts and cultural expressions of the "losers" in history. Escaping the mute parochialism and indifference of many historians, they realize that causes which they portray and analyze that were lost in Europe and in the United...
Professor Derrick Bell's letter in May 21st Crimson is as ignorant as it is pathetic. Its ignorance is manifold: First, none of my comments and analysis on the dysfunctional aspects of the black separatist lifestyle have ever denied that this behavior was due in part to white racist patterns, and in my Bulletin article (April) I actually state that "such behavior is a conscious countering of white racist exclusivism with black ethnic exclusivism." What I have said, and would reiterate, is that the black separatist students use the charge of white racism as a catch-all explanation for their...
...There have been manifold problems associated with the internal growth of universities. At Harvard, Bok told the alumni, it has been necessary "to establish a large and more complex bureaucracy which is more cumbersome than before." This structure, he said, "is irritating and unfortunate to many of us who feel academic institutions should work without a bureaucracy, but we must accept...