Word: modeli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot teach about a mode of thought without [students knowing] the content," said Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez, who chairs the foreign cultures subcommittee of the Core. "Though we do not like it, we may have to rethink Core courses...
...Board does not see itself as an adversaryof the students," Moses added. "We try to workwith the students. But the minute we bring inoutside counsel, immediately we go to the'we-they' mode...
...England farmhouses, menus of turkey and cranberry sauce, families bowing their heads in grateful prayer, and wayward children dramatically returning home for the occasion. Even Abraham Lincoln in ushering in the modern national Thanksgiving holiday could not rise above what a latter-day President might call "the banality mode." Just weeks before he composed the soaring sentences of the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln began his 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation with this hackneyed conceit: "The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies...
...move from fad to fad, called bumu (Japanese for boom). Last year it was retro bumu, which elevated the bulky, prosperous look of the 1950s to a new art form. Italian casual, inspired by Benetton, had its moment. So did leather jackets and vests for the Hell's Angels mode. And the prim little-girl look with button-up sweaters...
...hard work. But there are rational elements. Italians are great savers, squirreling away 15% of income, much of it in government securities. Fully 97% of the national debt is funded domestically, and nearly two-thirds of the negotiable state debt is in the hands of individuals. This mode of saving doubtless owes something to exchange controls and preferential tax treatment, but Italians have been willing buyers of state paper, thus absorbing the burgeoning debt. In this situation, rises in interest rates have the perverse effect of stimulating consumption by putting more money into people's pockets. Moreover, another part...