Word: mindsets
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...will also spend time at either the Harvard Kennedy School or the Business School, writing papers about the issues related with management of engineering schools and research institutes, which he said “require a different kind of culture and mindset...
...Administration is taking a harder line on human rights excesses in El Salvador. But the White House’s recent attempts to sell aims to the rightist regime in Guatemala and destabilize the leftist government in Nicaragua are telling signs of the President’s dangerous mindset. The Administration has been flirting with the Guatemala regime ever since General Efrain Rios Montt took power in a coup last spring. Reagan wants to end a four-year freeze on arms sales to that country imposed by then-President Carter because of serious human rights violations. Rios Montt has done...
...Asani, the Harvard professor who specializes in the Ismaili tradition, says that members of the sect have often lived as refugees and in hiding, giving the community a pluralistic mindset...
...story, of course, is a metaphor, and a potent one in times of natural disasters, food riots and the criminal responses of governments like Burma's. But Blindness is rarely plausible, never compelling; its characters are locked in a mindset that accepts the status quo, no matter how awful it gets. They never think of forming a community to rebel against the government guards, and only belatedly find a way to escape. Meirelles' camera style is plenty jazzy, with an agitated rhythm and the desaturated color scheme from Children of God (another dystopian English-language social parable from a Latin...
...recent auditions, Kargman has collected both amusing anecdotes and valuable professional experience. As a newcomer, she approaches every opportunity with an earnest confidence in her craft. “You don’t know me for now,” she says of her mindset when interacting with famous casting directors, “but hopefully I can show you that I know this character.”—Mollie K. Wright