Word: pretended
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...give America co-ed bathrooms and force women to serve in combat alongside men, is confident that her archfoes--the feminists--have been beaten. "There was very much debate from 1972 to 1976 and nobody wants it," Schlafly said. She called ERA "a rule that will require us to pretend that there's no difference between men and women...
...anti-perestroikers are trying to interpret glasnost as discrediting the achievements of socialism. But glasnost itself is an achievement of socialism. Economic perestroika, like glasnost, is being discredited, hobbled, scared off, worn down. In economics, as in literature, there are sacred cows who pretend to be defending the national interest and are actually defending only their own. Today glasnost must help the economy. Tomorrow, if glasnost is in trouble, it will be supported by the mighty shoulder of the new economy. Without personal initiative, we will not be able to move forward in either glasnost or the economy...
Allowing for future change gives such an education its inherent humility. It self-consciously confesses its own powerlessness in the face of a civilization in perpetual motion and does not pretend to teach us what we "need" to know...
...know is that if you quack and you waddle you're a duck," Brown Coach Mike Cingiser says. "We can pretend we're really Division I schools, but in reality we're still a duck. If you look at what we are, we're a Division III school. The first round of the NCAA tournament is the first day of duck hunting season. We are a quack in Division...
More troubling is the fact that concentrators must take two semesters of science in the Core, but need not understand calculus--a tool essential to modern economists. How can the Ec department pretend that an honors degree in the concentration is truly "honorable" if most students who receive one don't know how to take a derivative...