Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...college is a hot topic because tuitions will increase up to 9% this fall. Total costs at Harvard currently run about $20,000 a year; Maine's Colby College costs about $18,900. The similarity is not the result of price fixing, says Colby President William Cotter. The reason, he says, is "that a Ford costs about the same as a Chevy," or in the case of Harvard and Yale, a BMW costs about the same as a Jaguar. Cotter admits that the market is not price sensitive. "A family decides on private vs. public," he says. "But then they...
...mentor's grip on grand strategy. He shares Jimmy Carter's fascination with the fine details of government, but understands better which pieces are most important. Bush says he learned from Reagan the importance of stubborn principle in politics, but he sees more clearly than Reagan the sweet reason of expedient compromise...
Furthermore, to assume that Black leaders are the only sources of racial harmony in urban areas completely simplifies the problem of bigotry. The Times' argument is claiming that the only reason why Watts doesn't burn again is because "they've got one of their own in the statehouse...
...cabinet, but Walesa's proposal "complicates and prolongs the process." He also said the Walesa proposal indicated the Solidarity leader's negative attitude toward any form of coalition government had eased, creating "new chances" for the "grand coalition" which he and the Communist Party have long advocated. For this reason, he said, he viewed Malinowski as having a chance for forming such a coalition government...
Double standards have, in fact, played a role in the Judiciary Committee's handling of the Administration's choices for important Justice Department posts. In July, Robert B. Fiske, a New York lawyer, was forced to withdraw his nomination as Deputy Attorney General. Reason: conservative Republicans led by Thurmond complained that Fiske, a highly experienced prosecutor, was too liberal...