Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list (although three will not be given until 1980-81), about the same number on an informal list the committee distributed this year. Some of this year's courses will drop out because their instructors are leaving. Among next year's new offerings are a course on women in modern European society and politics taught by Mary Nolan, assistant professor of History, a Government course on the politics of women's liberation given by Ethel Klein, a newly-hired junior faculty member, assistant professor of English Heather McClave's course on women short story writers, and two Afro-American studies...
...much are your memories worth to you? For people who experienced rockabilly first- hand Gordon must seem at best a throwback, a rock-and-roll neanderthal. Such people would do better to dredge out their old bop records and bop to them than to Gordon's albums, modern engineering notwithstanding...
...road. Oman now has 13 hospitals, twelve health centers and 365 schools. In 1970, the country had two nurses and twelve doctors; the totals today are 624 and 211. Color television and air conditioning are common; new construction is transforming the capital of Muscat into a dusty city of modern banks, hotels and low-cost housing. By and large, British industry and contractors are the biggest beneficiaries of the development spending. Britain's share last year is estimated at more than $400 million. Despite its oil income, Oman has had budget deficits of $20 million a year...
Sultan Qaboos believes absolute rule is a thing of the past and that a modern king must give his people a voice in their own future. "Firepower, color television, air conditioning can't satisfy people wanting their own parliament," he says. "That's the message of the 20th century. Kings and shahs, sultans and emirs, must all bow to it. And dictators...
...building our country, as it may appear, entirely by myself. I'd like to see us create a democracy for Oman, and I sincerely hope that day is not too far distant. I am guiding my people toward that day. In terms of being a part of the modern world, we are only eight years old. I don't want to be a monarch who never gives up the burden and doesn't share it. The monarch who carries all the burden in the end also carries all the blame...