Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President is on a ruthless path of destruction [of student aid], and we hope to fill the most obnoxious of the gaps," said State Rep. Stephen W. Doran (D-Lexington...
...government has often tried to domesticate the Masai, to get them to give up the path of the warrior. Some years ago, a colonial district officer named Clarence Buxton decided to try to substitute manly sports for cattle raiding. He conceived the idea of encouraging Masai warriors to play polo while mounted on donkeys. The plan...
...purpose: to protest attempts by the Socialist government to tighten university admissions and academic standards. The march, one of the latest in a series of nationwide demonstrations, resulted from a deepening concern among students that the door may be closing on the accessibility of a university degree, the traditional path to a good job and financial security. "People study now who probably would have found work before," says High Schooler Raul Cabezas. "But because there is no work, what else can they do? They might as well study as do nothing...
...President, for her part, seemed intent on exonerating the military from any blame for the breakdown. "I know that you and I did our best to explore the path of negotiations to the utmost," she told a group of soldiers at Camp Aguinaldo, the armed forces headquarters near Manila. Still, Aquino held hope that negotiations might be renewed, at least on a regional level. The insurgents rebuffed the idea outright as a "malicious move to sow dissension and division within insurgent ranks." Said a rebel leader: "This is the most important phase of our struggle, and we shall do everything...
With less talent available for corporations to choose from, employers may offer larger salaries and more responsibility to promising college graduates. Ambitious baby-bust workers could find the path to promotion a little less crowded than it has been for baby boomers. Says Peter Morrison, a population analyst at the Rand Corp.: "Baby busters will in general have more of a choice ((in the job market)) and better prospects for advancement than the previous generation...