Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...myth grew up around the Cowboys that dubbed them America's Team, a symbol for all that was good and heroic about the nation...
Perhaps something is quietly passing us by as we are attending "the nation's oldest, richest and most prestigious college." Perhaps it is a good thing the student body here is "reputed to be one of the best in the country." The education, based on sound courses, attentive professors, well-organized departments and intelligent counselling, is the only thing missing...
...help "quantify" the quality of American higher education for the first time. Keen observers may have linked Bok's intentions to a report published last fall by the Carnegie Foundation--the same group which spurred the broadest post-Second World War reform of secondary education through its report "A Nation At Risk: Crisis in America's High Schools...
...multi-volume report, entitled "College," gives a similarly severe critique of the nation's universities. It issued a cry for higher education to reassess its direction and goals, to determine whether or not it met the needs of a nation entering the most competitive age of its history...
...emerged from the party caucus in the historic old Senate chamber of the Capitol to meet with reporters. Quickly turning aside suggestions he would be a partisan fighter, he said, "We hope to cooperate with the new administration to deal with the serious problems and important challenges facing our nation...