Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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On a rainy Sunday morning in March, Brown Admissions Director Jim Rogers and three committee members contemplate a fat computer printout. It measures, in code, the credentials of the 11,421 high school seniors who have applied to Brown. Next to each applicant's name, a long string of...
The history of planning is marked by a steady expansion of the scope of the profession. At each step, that change has met intense resistance. It was not many years ago that influential voices challenged the legitimacy of social planning. But the health of the profession is seriously endangered when...
Considering the prominence of Asia in discussions of present world hunger, the two Asian articles that marked the pages of the 1977 Washington Post seem a token gesture: "Indonesia's Population Problem Discussed." "Laos...Seeks International Aid to Prevent Famine."
Monday afternoon, Carter went to address the Knesset, and he did not mask his frustration. Going over the heads of the Israeli Premier and Cabinet, the President appealed directly to their nation. Said he: "The people of [Israel and Egypt] are now ready for peace. The leaders have not yet...
Olepi, Ahbleza's father, is the tribe's greatest warrior; Ogle is the tribe's greatest hunter. It is no coincidence that Ahbleza saves the infant Tonweya, Ogle's son, from burning himself. Just as Olepi's life parallels Ogle's, Ahbleza's will parallel Tonweya's Despite the fact...