Word: populars
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...fundamental cause of Palme's defeat, however, was the growing popular feeling that Sweden's government was becoming a Leviathan. There is almost no quarrel with the generous benefits of the cradle-to-grave welfare cocoon created by the Social Democrats. But Swedes have been increasingly concerned that the ever growing concentration of state power and the extension of bureaucracy into private life have already begun to curtail individual rights and liberties (TIME, July 19). Frequently cited as an example of the increasing arbitrariness of the bureaucracy was the harassment of Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman by Swedish...
Terrill's interest in China goes back to his undergraduate days in Australia. He took a leave of absence from college one year to travel in Europe, and while there decided the shortest route home was not the popular one through the Middle East, but rather through Asia...
Perhaps the saddest account is that of Brock Chester, voted most popular member of his senior class. Chester committed suicide at 24, with no explanation, no warning. Medved and Wallechinsky interviewed his mother and his high school girl friend, trying to fathom his motive; the conclusion they reach, that he could neither live up to his popularity in school or accept his post-graduation anonymity, is couched in his mother's words, making it a lot more palatable than a slick judgment on someone the authors barely knew could have been. The episode may substantiate Medved's idea that Palisades...
Most seminar leaders contacted yesterday reported that the rise was part of a trend of burgeoning applications for the more popular seminars over the past three or four years...
...cent rise in the number of applicants to the more popular courses in the freshman seminar program has placed an increased administrative burden on many seminar leaders--a burden so severe that some of the seminar leaders are considering a random lottery as a means of choosing among applicants...