Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...luck." Meanwhile, Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, who heads one of the few democratic governments in Latin America, called on the Organization of American States for "cordial intervention" in Nicaragua "to seek a process of democratization and avert further useless bloodshed. No one has the right, no matter how powerful he is or how many weapons he has, to sacrifice the life of his nation...
...some potentially explosive political problems. Last March, for example, the Irish Independence Party, a Catholic group, began pressuring to have the precolonial "Derry" reinstated as the city's official name, a move certain to have aroused widespread Protestant hostility. The council, guided by the SDLP, voted to consider the matter but to take no action, thus defusing the threat...
What's amazing to me now, although I no longer regret being at Harvard, is how little I actually thought about the place, or any school for that matter, when I was applying to colleges. I came from a notoriously reputable suburban high school, and it was simply assumed by everyone, myself included, that I would end up here. Sibling rivalry probably had a role, too; when I was accepted I didn't feel happy, just relieved. But I never really considered what i wanted out of college, or where I wanted to be. If you do well at Scarsdale...
...practical. The more nearly objective, or more nearly perfect, his or her reporting is, the more it will be relied upon--by readers who are spending their money in search of, if not truth, at least trustworthy information. The alternative--slanting the news to benefit one group, no matter how morally righteous--may be personally satisfying at times, but likely to be self-defeating in the long...
...Reading Test. Required of all Freshmen. This is, as the pamphlet says, "A test to estmate reading skills." Don't worry, you can't fail, and it doesn'r really matter. If you don't do well, the University will recommend that you take a worthwhile reading comprehension course at the Bureau of Study Council. So the ends of this test are kindly, but the means are a drag. The material on the test is guaranteed to be dull (in '75 it was some drivel about English kings of the 12th Century and their legal practices, I think...