Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ABSOLUTES RARELY mean anything at all. Certainly they should not form the basis of university governance. One person's idealist is another person's technocrat. One person's inviolable principle is another's stepping stone. Ideas become just only if ther community affected by them accepts them as their own. The role of modern administrators is not to impose principles, but solicit concerns and then convince the community that policies adopted satisfy those concerns are appropriate. No absolutes should exist simply because a self-perpetuating group of seven men determine the existence...
...didn't mean so much at the beginning, but it's different now that we've gotten so, so close," Chiarelli said...
...returning American grown accustomed to the civility and efficiency of modern Japan, the U.S. seems to have become a quagmire of bureaucracy, ineptitude, mean spirit and lackadaisy. In Los Angeles, New York, Miami and other cities, the repatriate is appalled and depressed by the lack of efficiency and of simple courtesy and caring...
...perhaps last -- chance to reassert his leadership. The address has assumed near epic public relations proportions because Reagan has pretty much been under wraps since Iranscam erupted in late November. Following his prostate operation in early January, says one White House official, Nancy Reagan "was yelling -- and I mean yelling -- insisting that her husband be given the same four-to-six-week recovery time that any other man would get." So virtually every appearance for six weeks has been canceled except the State of the Union. As a result, his aides are hyping that single half-hour speech, written...
...small knot of foreigners still crazy or desperate enough to brave the mean streets of Beirut, it was one of the worst weeks in memory. In the short span of eight days, eight new hostages were swept up in a frightening new paroxysm of terrorist kidnapings. Almost any foreigner was fair game, and the reign of terror struck almost anywhere in the tortured city, from the backseat of a taxicab to a sun-drenched sidewalk, from a quiet hotel room to a seat of higher learning...