Word: nies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...institute's founding is a response to national concern over public education, and math and science training in particular, said Alan Wilson, deputy director of the National Institute of Education (NIE), yesterday...
Those were words he lived by to the end. His motto, in Polish, was "Nie dam sie" (I shall never give in), and he never did. "Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me," he once said. "Music is me. I think I can say no man has lived his life more fully than I have. My life is made. If I die today, still, I've had it. Nobody can say I've been deprived of anything." Of some men it is said that they lived for their art; Rubinstein's life...
...obscure, knew that young reporters would go over their lives like flesh-eating birds. That knowledge has served to deplete the ranks of men and women willing to serve in government. Watergate helped to destroy the boundary between public and private life. Says University of Chicago Political Scientist Norman Nie: "Fear of exposure in their personal, financial, social and emotional lives is going to discourage competent people from going into government...
Gender considerations apparently did not influence Bok's choice; Graham, Warren Professor of the History of Education and former director of the National Institute of Education (NIE), "was simply a natural" for the post, the president said this week...
Shortages may be the most obvious problem, but Poland's economic malaise cuts much more deeply. When the trains do not run, or the electricity goes off, or a project remains unfinished, the response by workers is a shrug of the shoulders and the disclaimer, "To nie jest moja wina" (It isn't my fault...