Word: propound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mantra of the album is the refrain of its second track, "Good Life," where the women incant in a breezy calypso lilt, "I'm livin' a good life, no more trouble in sight." Beginning with their Calvin Coolidge duds on the CD cover, the ladies propound a hip-hop-capitalist work ethic throughout Brand New. Sure they are "Livin' good, like a Nubian Queen should," but only because, as honorary member Spinderella puts it later in the track, "I busted my ass to get to the cream...
Affirmative action is a means to an end. It tries to balance fairness and the need to create change quickly. Certainly, it steps on some toes in the process. But the more vigilantly we propound the tenets of affirmative action, the sooner affirmative action will cease to be necessary...
Secondly, with so many smart folks around here you cannot always expect As, but in many Core courses you always can. Professors tend to be Mr. Hydes dealing with concentrators, but turn into Dr. Jekylls when dealing with "Core-ers." They know clearly that they are out there to propound modes, not depth, of thinking. They care about your grades more than you do. A very good example would be the No. 1 core, Ec 10, where Pareto efficiency is reached by a neat "unit test" system -- if you spend twenty minutes passing those extremely easy tests, your final grade...
...superpower status--they're isolated. The Soviet Union openly maintained alliances in, and sent arms to, every corner of the world, from Cuba to Syria to Madagascar to Vietnam. The United States and the Soviet Union were constantly at odds in every sphere of influence. One power tried to propound democracy while the other strove to spread Communism. The Soviets also had their own orbit of similarly modelled republics--an effective buffer to the West...
...hospitalized for depression, as Forrestal had, nor was he the focus of criminal proceedings, as McFarlane was. Foster's death illuminates how Washington rituals have become wretched soap operas played out on a media stage where people, with all their frailties, are mercilessly dissected more than the policies they propound. Personal tragedy can come swiftly and unexpectedly...