Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This does not mean that Harvard's junior professors will automatically be elevated to tenured posts--even if their work seems to warrant the promotion. But the switch, administrators and professors say, may mark the beginning of a critical transition in the tradition-bound Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Granted, it will take a politician with rare courage to reach out and inspire these non-voters. It will take more than a boring technocrat, or a mean-spirited candidate who appeals to our cheapest instincts. It will take a principled and committed liberal strong enough to express his love for the people, and bold enough to challenge them...
...organization that I think is better than I've seen in a long time and certainly far superior to the other side's. We have not been as good as we should have been in developing media and that kind of thing, and I think we acknowledge that. I mean, we're doing better...
...come on. That's absurd. The Republican strategy as you well know was developed way back in the spring. Bush was making speeches attacking me in May. Look, everybody expects a certain amount of jabbing and poking at conventions. I mean they had their convention. I don't recall that it was a "kinder, gentler" convention the way it painted Mike Dukakis, do you? The last kinder, gentler period in the Bush campaign was just terminated after 24 hours...
Whatever the prospective economic gains, many Canadians fear the elimination of tariff and trade barriers with the U.S. will mean a far more portentous loss -- namely, national sovereignty. Canadians have long been worried that free trade would mean a kind of integration with America's economy that would wrest self-determination from Canadian industry. As far back as 1911, the government of Liberal Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier fell over a free-trade agreement -- an episode that gave birth to the slogan "No truck nor trade with the Yankees...