Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really doesn't matter where the Crimson, the nation's 19th-ranked team. finished in the eight-team tournament lield at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. (Harvard, which entered as the tournament's fourth seed, placed fifth...
...would be fully in support of the decision," he told reporters. The Chinese embassy in Oslo read it the same way. It denounced the award as an intervention in China's internal affairs. Wang Guisheng, the embassy press attache, accused the Dalai Lama of "subverting the unity of the nation...
...Texas decision, which affects the nation's second largest school system after California, is sure to breathe new life into the struggle for more uniform school financing around the country. But by calling for a basic shift in the way schools operate, the court changed the terms of the debate, emphasizing that inequities in funding are linked to inequities in the quality of education...
...decision came less than a week after President George Bush and the nation's Governors huddled in Charlottesville, Va., for an education summit that endorsed several of the same ideas -- radical restructuring of schools and creation of national performance goals. "The Texas ruling is consistent with the growing national expectations we are placing on schools," says Robert Berne, an associate dean at New York University...
...unrealistic to expect that Harvard alone can solve completely the nation's or even its own shortage of minority and women academics. Larger institutional changes--such as tax incentives and loan exemption for those embarking on academic careers--will be integral to real progress...