Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Carter attempted to kill Clinch River in April of last year, the reasoning downplayed the economic and geological arguments against this particular plant. Instead, he worked from the broader, far more compelling and important opinions he voiced in the previous fall's campaign. The risk of further nuclear proliferation, the President said in withdrawing administration support from Clinch River, "would be vastly increased by the further spread of sensitive technologies which entail direct access to plutonium or other weapons-useable material...
...more diverse program than MIT. Two of the Harvard graduate faculty are Marxists whereas, in Perkins' view, MIT has "very few" radical economists on its faculty. Perkins added that he believes MIT focuses on a narrow neoclassical interpretation of economics, while Harvard tried to "see the limitations of that particular theory...
...past five years the speeches have not met the criteria set by the Committee on Commencement Parts, Henry J. Steiner '51, professor of Law and chairman of the committee, said yesterday. "If none of the speeches are of the quality we are looking for then that particular part of commencement will not take place," he added...
This year, May Day has particular significance for our brothers and sisters in southern Africa. We should pause for a moment and think of Nelson Mandela, the black South African leader, sitting in his jail cell, in the 15th consecutive year of his imprisonment, and of the all-too-many people who are jailed with...
...recent past, foreign capital, in particular American capital, could defend its presence in South Africa by claiming it followed progressive employment practices that set a standard for others. In the pre-Soweto period when most South African blacks could visualize only a gradual process of improvement in their status, this argument carried weight. Advent of black consciousness, especially among urbanized young and dissatisfaction with pace of events has brought a shift in attitudes. Measures which only relieve hardships like marginal raises, subsidized meals, school fee allowances, and personal loans are seen as panaceas which evade question of basic rights...