Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Islam and Progress. Muslim scholars insist that nothing in Islam is incompatible with technological advance or industrial development. In the days of the caliphs, Islam led the world in scientific and intellectual discoveries. What Muslims object to are the evils associated with modernization: the breakdown of the family structure, the lowering of moral standards, the appeal of easygoing secular lifestyles. At the same time, Muslims are demanding the best of the West: schools, hospitals, technology, agricultural and water development techniques. Harvesting the fruits of modernization without absorbing some of its side-effects may prove to be impossible. But Sheik Mahmoud...
When the first alarm sounded inside Unit 2 at 4 a.m. on Wednesday, only about 60 employees were at work. Precisely what the engineers at the control panels did to find out why the turbine had tripped?and just what steps they took next?will be the object of long investigations. Company spokesmen insisted that most of the procedures had been automatic, implying that all of the complex machinery, with its multiple, supposedly infallible back-up systems, had flipped into computer-controlled action...
...thinking too hard, and so is Dunaway. This actress's repertoire of neurotic mannerisms brings back unwanted memories of her performance in Chinatown, even to the point of imbuing The Champ with bizarre incestuous undercurrents. As the young object of Dunaway's affections, the freckle-faced Schroder cries on any and every cue. Tears flood the screen, but at theaters where this Champ is playing, there won't be a wet eye in the house. -Frank Rich
...minutes later. Picking up again her main themes of the constricting conditions of class, sex and race and their effect on writers, she apparently thought she was losing people's attention. Weary of the vertiginous heights of the merely abstract, she decided to provide everyone with a small object lesson: she inclined her head towards me and said pointedly in voice too loud for the tiny room, "And you for example, your people wouldn't have been able to come to Harvard three or four generations ago..." The less sophisticated members of the group couldn't resist the impulse...
...annoyance of the state's teachers, James has ordered that achievement tests be given to students in public elementary schools and has suggested that a method be devised to grade teachers as well. His object is to pinpoint problem schools. James has also proposed diverting $70 million from the state's sprawling, 58-campus higher education system to elementary and secondary schools; Alabama now ranks 47th in the nation in expenditures per pupil...