Word: proportionment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A supervisor for eight years and a former head of the city's finance committee, Kopp campaigned aggressively as the man who could solve San Francisco's recent fiscal problems. Feinstein argued that she had united a diverse city after Moscone's death. But in the end...
Western science and technology have wounded the deep pride of Islam. The success of the unvirtuous, the infidel unfavored of Allah, is psychologically confusing. "Seen through Muslim eyes," writes Berkeley Historian Peter Brown, "the emergence of [the West] as the temporary master of the world remains an anomaly in the...
The first reads, "Sons and daughters of intellectuals are getting into P.U. (Peking University) these days, and people from worker-peasant backgrounds can't get in." This is false. There is a tendency to have a high proportion of intellectuals' sons and daughters, just as there is at Harvard, but...
Q. Isn't the reaction in Iran to the Shah's presence in the U.S. out of all proportion to reality?
Referring to Luria as "this jerk across the river," Bergenheim said a small group of vociferous Silber critics had blown the issue way out of proportion and that the professors were inflaming tensions by making irresponsible statements.