Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience a mild paramnesia as they again hear of the novelist's neurotic childhood, his crush on his psychoanalyst's wife, his dissolute years at Oxford, his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his beginnings as a journalist, and the physical and spiritual wanderings that led to the writing of his popular moral thrillers...
...they have been throughout most of postwar U.S. history, the British were the largest investors last year, plunking down $21.5 billion. In second place were the Japanese ($14.2 billion), ahead of the Canadians ($10.4 billion). U.S. firms have been popular targets partly because of the steady growth of the American economy during the past six years. Another reason for their attractiveness is the large and relatively homogeneous U.S. consumer market. American investors still control more assets overseas ($330 billion) than foreign owners do in the U.S. ($304 billion), but that advantage has been narrowing in recent years...
...lessons learned at school can easily be undermined by today's popular culture. The messages that blare from stereos, TVs and movie screens amount to a second education for the young. And much more money goes into the development of this after-school curriculum than goes into education. Rock * stars earn millions, but a high-school teacher is lucky to get $30,000 a year...
Perhaps Vellucci's sense of humor explains hispopularity for the past 38 years. AlthoughHarvard-bashing has always been a popular sport,the flair Vellucci has brought to his contestswith Presidents Nathan M. Pusey '28 and Derek C.Bok has never been duplicated...
...example, the Moral Reasoning component of the Core faces a particularly severe shortage of courses, largely because its definition is interdisciplinary and requires innovation from standard departmental courses. In fact, the subcommittee report says that when courses, such as the ever-popular Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice," need to be replaced, the Core area will face difficulty in finding adequate substitutes...