Word: milles
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Libertarian Party: Based on a philosophy most eloquently presented by John Stuart Mill, this party is so opposed to government intervention that is platform sometimes verges on the anarchistic. Anything is alright between consenting adults, so to speak, from abortion to free enterprise, including union contracts and hiring 12-year olds. Unlike the American Party, the Libertarians demand a strict enforcement of civil rights and liberties, since its philosophy calls for equal opportunity--but not reverse discrimination or quota systems, which is why it calls for passage of the ERA but an end to affirmative action programs. While the Libertarians...
...standardized testing has turned out to be a freak. Elsewhere in the country, nothing much changed; and down in Princeton, N.J., Educational Testing Service (ETS) was expanding its operations into a host of new fields. Apart from some 1.5 million pre- and elementary school children just entering the mill, 20,000 teenagers applying to exclusive private schools, 1.8 million high school students heading for college, 300,000 applicants to graduate schools, 74,000 considering business careers, and 120,000 hoping to be lawyers--all of whom will have to sharpen up their number 2 pencils and lay their futures...
Fallows began to stop "dividing people into demons and heroes" the summer after he graduated from college, when he was working on a project on water pollution for Ralph Nader, "The Water Lords." In Savannah, Ga., he and his co-workers met with the owners of the mill that was fouling the Savannah River, and found them to be "very pleasant, very nice people...
Thomas said there is a need for fastfood restaurants in Harvard Square, which should make Mug 'n' Muffin a more successful venture than Ye Olde Grist Mill...
...Edwin Thomas, the owner of Ye Olde Grist Mill, said yesterday his restaurant--which also served muffins--closed for lack of capital...