Word: pander
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Undergraduates say those who understand thatphilosophy, and pander accordingly, get offeasiest since the Board is mainly looking forrepentance and a sense the student learned fromthe experience. Despite the fact most Harvardstudents can figure out how to work the systemfairly quickly, Allan Erbsen '94 warned in aletter to The Harvard Crimson that the Ad Boardmay not be fulfilling its goals. "Even when the AdBoard reaches a 'good' outcome, students are oftenso alienated by the process that they drive noneof the educational benefits that the Ad Board hadhoped to impart to them," Erbsen wrote...
Finally, the enactment of term limits would weaken special interest groups and return power to the hands of the American people. With their terms limited by law, members of Congress would be more inclined to do what is right rather than pander to the special interest groups...
Lacey Rayner, age 15 Modesto, California I am increasingly frustrated with our tendency in North America to pander to the lowest common denominator, a practice known as participatory democracy. Both U.S. and Canadian democracies are supposed to be based on representation by principled leaders. The Achilles' heel of today's North American political environment is the demand for the government to be slavishly obedient to the mass of ``empowered'' individuals, neatly packaged among a multitude of special-interest groups. In everyday matters, our expectations of government are limitless. Yet we hamstring its ability to act freely with propositions, referendums...
...play, "Don't Drink the Water," was produced in 1966) is clearly enjoying himself here. Almost all the characters are heavily, heavily drawn, so much so that the film has the feeling of a farce. Shayne declares passionately that he's an artist, that he won't change to pander to the commercial--his goal is "transform men's souls"--and promptly gives away every ideal he's histrionically declared as fast as anyone will take them. Diane Wiest is hilarious as the ridiculous Sinclair, speaking and moving as if she were an alcoholic Lady Macbeth who'd be king...
...United States determined that the new government would be favorable to oil interests, and actively encouraged Bechtel to continue its oil industry work there. In the 1970s, when the Arab boycott of Israel prompted legislation in Congress to punish companies that severed links with Israel to pander to Arab countries, Bechtel successfully lobbied against the proposed bill...