Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...founder of Colossus Hardware and Software Corporation. Halamka splits his time between studying microbiology and selling econometric computer programs to more than 20 clients, including. Nobel-lauerate economist Milton Friedman...
...that high Asian income levels may account for above-average math performance, since parents are able to send their children to better schools and give them such home aids as learning toys and computers. Most Asians regard education as the best avenue to recognition and success. Bronx Science Principal Milton Kopelman is reminded of "the youngsters who came out of the homes of East European immigrants several decades ago. There is pressure to work, and there is also great respect for education." Sociologist William Liu, who directs the Asian-American mental health center at the University of Illinois' Chicago...
...come to a matter of character. John Ruskin said that only a good man can make a good artist, but that notion is disproved all the time. Good teaching, however, is another matter. No one knows how virtuous a person Milton was, but the speculation becomes irrelevant when applied to Paradise Lost, which, like every work of art, assumed a life of its own as soon as it was finished. The writer let it go. But the teacher of Paradise Lost cannot let it go; he becomes its life. Whether he sees the work as a brilliant display of versification...
...Milton Friedman, Nobel-prizewinning economist: "Obviously, it's a good thing for Chrysler and the country that the company seems to be surviving, but one bad byproduct is that it will lead people to believe bailouts are a good thing. A free-enterprise system is one of profit and loss. If you guarantee against losses by bailing out losing companies, you remove the major monitoring device of a free market...
...television crew also filmed scenes in Milton, Brookline, Boston, Tufts and South Station...