Word: preservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The main and constant ingredients of my position are the idea that the preservation of peace is indissolubly linked to the openness of society and the observance of human rights, as formulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the conviction that only the convergence of the socialist and...
An eleventh hour compromise last week prevented a Barnard College clerical union from going on strike and ended bargaining battles over salary increases and the preservation of workers' benefits from a recently expired contract.
In New Orleans, hit the bars on Bourbon St. (don't miss Pat O'Brien's famous Hurricane) at night, and during the day stroll the Mississippi River Walk, enjoy the street artists and performers, and sample Cafe du Monde's beignets, a type of fried donut. Also, be sure...
It was A.D. 1348, one year after the bubonic plague, or black death, had begun its devastating rampage through Europe. In a famous medical treatise French Surgeon Guy de Chauliac of Avignon recalled his impressions of the horror around him: "The father did not visit the son nor the son...
ABOUT A CENTURY ago, Friedrich Nietzsche made some terrifying predictions about the fate of man. He foresaw man's descent into a despicable creature--the last man, a beast whose only goal is comfortable self-preservation.