Word: maximalism
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...stage musical that will be licensed for local productions, beginning this fall. More important, the HSM mania may mark a torch-passing from one generation to the next. Puberty is suddenly geriatric; for marketers, tweens are the new teens. Entertainment entrepreneurs have realized the truth of a maxim as pertinent to education as to commerce: Get them while they're young, when they can be instilled with values, not simply reinforced with prejudices...
Murder and genocide are categorically intolerable. Ultimately, it was that maxim that led Harvard to divest itself of its holdings in Sinopec, and it is why we resoundingly support and applaud Harvard’s announcement last month that it will sell its Sinopec shares...
...there was another reason for the diplomatic pair?s alarm; the Washington maxim that all politics is local. With Iraq teetering on the edge of civil war, the poll numbers of both the Bush and Blair governments were sliding and their political effectiveness was diminished. ?The American people, and the British people, and others who have sacrificed need to know that everything is being done to keep progress moving here,? Rice said at a press conference in Baghdad on April...
...truth, truth reached ultimately not through reason but through faith.” Yet, in 1878, The Crimson reported a remark about the “Veritas” seal made by one Dr. Holmes at a Harvard Club dinner in New York. It might well serve as our maxim in 2006: “The Harvard College of to-day wants no narrower, or more exclusive motto than truth—truth which embraces all that is highest and purest in the precepts of all teachers, human or divine...
...FEMA) James Lee Witt keynoted the symposium, delivering a scathing indictment of the Bush administration’s management of the federal emergency preparedness system. Witt, the Clinton-appointed director of FEMA from 1993 to 2001, also called for active student and academic involvement in disaster management. Citing a maxim from an Argentine Baptist minister, Witt said that “if we are not part of planting the trees of the future, we do not deserve to stand in the shade of the trees of the past.” Witt oversaw the elevation of FEMA to a Cabinet...