Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considerations of merit in the hiring process. The goals system--which requires employers to file with the government numerical expectations of how well they think they will fare in increasing their minority and female representation--has drawn particular criticism from academics who see it as an abrogation of the pure scholarly values that should prevail in a university...
...alumni can donate profitable stocks to Harvard and use the profits as tax write-offs because they are gifts to a non-profit institutions. When the market is down, however, as it was most of this year, people who give stocks to the Fund are doing so on a pure loss basis...
Dixy Lee Ray, Sc.D., Assistant Secretary of State. Not one to be awed into silent inactivity by the promises of pure technology, she has dealt with the implications of science with a calm logic and with consistent attention to its human role...
INCOME. It is pure romanticism, say most gerontologists, to assume that prudent people can provide adequately for their old age. Inflation in the 1970s can erode the value of the most liberal of pensions and shrink the worth of even the fattest savings accounts. Nor does Social Security, upon which most elderly Americans depend for at least a third of their income, enable most to live with any measure of financial security or comfort. A 65-year-old couple entering the plan this year and entitled to the maximum benefits, which they have paid for in taxes, draws only...
...last pupil. I will never find the kind of pedagogue I had in Pushkin," he says. "He was such a pure and simple character that it is hard to talk about him in simple words. He was like somebody who stepped out of an icon. Pushkin had an ability to infect you with such a love for dance that you almost became obsessed with it. It is almost like a disease." Like all great teachers, he had an inspired ability to simplify. Says Baryshnikov: "He taught the most logical series of steps and movements that I have ever seen...