Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...getting inside, and occupying the construction site so work will have to cease. One of the most prepared groups in the effort, the cryptically-named Fanshen Armadilloes, occupies center stage for a time Saturday afternoon. Earlier that morning, while photographers clicked wildly, the Fanshen crew practiced cutting fences while pretend policemen battered their shields with branches. Now it's the real thing--in a drainage ditch next to the main gate, while 400 curious picketers watch. Up a little hill they charge, again and again--on the other side at least twice as many cops wait, poking with their sticks...
Harvard educators do not pretend that their philosophical fine tuning will have an immediate effect on secondary school education. Patricia A. Graham, Charles Warren Professor of the history of American Education and the chairman of the special committee overseeing the implementation of Barths's theories, says educators are already considering more drastic options such as "putting more (students) to work and adding some sort of academic component to the work environment," to deal with adolescents who now glide through high school with second-grade reading levels and 50 per cent attendance records...
...Free Chinese state" referred to by Jablin) was established in Taiwan in 1949. The R.O.C. was actually founded in Nanking in 1911, when Taiwan was occupied by the Japanese. The island was restored to the R.O.C. in 1945. It is also unfortunate that Jablin plays along with those who pretend that there is some kind of ethnic or cultural difference between the Taiwan Chinese and the mainland Chinese. Perhaps he doesn't realize that this issue is contrived merely for some to obtain political influence through unprincipled means. --Robert de Lorimier
...consider politics as one of many considerations in the appointment process--especially when, as in Harberger's case, the appointee has made a career of actively putting his theories into practice. Cases like Harberger's will come up infrequently, but when they do, the University cannot simply pretend that the political consequences of an appointment don't exist...
...Nobody knows what the cause is, Though some pretend they do; It's like some hidden assassin Waiting to strike...