Word: raff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gabrielle Raff, a teacher and a Cambridge resident, challenged Steinberg's assumption that parents are less involved now than they have been in past decades...
...When I talk to teachers older than myself, they say that people didn't used to be given homework," Raff said...
...Buchanan and his herd of sheep-was one reason for the reluctance to absorb the homeless refugees. Hitler's righthand propaganda czar went as far as to say "At bottom... I believe both the English and the Americans are happy that we are exterminating the Jewish riff-raff." This is certainly the conclusion he would have been led to if he was aware that Roosevelt had the ability to order a bombing of the railway lines leading to the concentration camp Auschwitz but refused to do so. Such an action could have saved thousands upon thousands of Jewish...
...details; otherwise, marvels like winged flight and the human brain could never have arisen. But very early on, some developmental biologists believe, the linkages between multiple genes made it difficult to change important features without lethal effect. "There must be limits to change," says Indiana University developmental biologist Rudolf Raff. "After all, we've had these same old body plans for half a billion years...
Gibson plays it safe by dwelling on themes always close to the collective American heart. The heartlees but lethally well organized monarchy against the bank of riff-raff with real heart is a mirror of the American Revolution, while the greedy Scottish nobles who sell out the hard-working commoners reflect the American distrust of aristocracy...