Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gets lots of reports on various things on my desk and I don't remember that particular one," said Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely...
...recognize that the quality of academic scholarship must be of paramount importance in tenure decisions. But it looks increasingly as if the elaborate calculus by which teaching is taken into account needs some adjustment. And as last week's report said, Harvard's influence in academia gives it a particular obligation to reaffirm the worth of good teaching. If schools like Harvard neglect teaching, the report said, "other institutions are likely to undervalue it as well...
...tier candidates in either party can claim to be talking sense to the American people. A few, such as Bob Dole and Michael Dukakis, can point to past accomplishments. But, for the most part, economic leadership is inversely proportional to standing in the polls. Bruce Babbitt in particular has advanced a laudable program on the deficit; most surveys put him last among the Democrats...
...hard to rate the candidates solely on the basis of particular policy stances. None of them can predict the precise nature of the mess that he would inherit in 1989. Nor is there any one set of clear answers on what to do about the hideously complex results of years of economic blindness. To judge the candidates' potential as economic leaders, it is necessary to examine their mastery of financial complexities, their candor in facing economic reality and their credibility in light of their record...
...money in consumers' hands. Some worriers go so far as to raise the ghost of Herbert Hoover, who slashed federal spending and persuaded Congress to raise income tax rates sharply in the wake of the 1929 Crash. Says University of Tennessee Economist Paul Davidson: "Cutting the deficit at this particular time would be the worst thing we could do. It would be Hooverism all over again. If the budget cuts proceed, we could slip into another Great Depression...