Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that matter, the Philippines. Marcos's dictatorship in 1968 planted the seeds of rising rebellions a decade later, and his replacement by Aquino two decades later. Why is the Union of South Africa listed as having a "high level of political instability" in 1968, while the Philippines have a "high level of political stability"? The situation in South Africa appears to me parallel in one respect to that of the Philippines, with a government able to impose itself for a relatively long period while the tension builds up and the period may end up in a bloody revolution. After...
...conviction undisturbed -- that pupils of any age can be educated, and the way to do that is to get them involved. At its best, as Adler demonstrates, the involvement is a two-way process that sparks the mind of the teacher as intensely as those of the students: "No matter how many times I do it," he says, "I find conducting seminars the most exciting thing...
...only listen in bemusement as a woman named Ira Funk whisks him through her architectural folly in Venice, Calif., chuckling, "Those Tudors just could never have dreamed up even one small bit of this." The meeting of John Doe and John Bull is frequently incongruous. " 'What's the matter, Baby,' a nun with a beard and sparkle all over his eyelids said to me," Adam writes after attending an all-gay basketball game in San Francisco. " 'Got no date...
...graduate student, whose name the university and student newspaper are withholding, told The Daily Pennsylvanian he opened the partially torn package after he became interested in the subject matter of the reference books...
...senior administrators did not learn of the discovery until contacted by student reporters the next Monday, Lane said. Logan refused to comment on the matter...