Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME should be America's common ground. We should look at ideas with an open mind, testing them not against some standard of ideological purity but against the solid touchstone of our common sense and sensibility. Our ideals must reflect the shared values in the hearts of most Americans. To my mind, these principles are simple yet profound: try to figure out what's best for our kids; clean up after ourselves; have faith in the power that comes from free markets and free minds; realize that individual opportunity and neighborly compassion can go hand in hand; and always...
...insists that sample populations in medical research must reflect the fact that women constitute 52 percent of the population. "The differences [in biology] between men and women are very distinct," she says...
Social psychologists say that in face-to-face conversations, people tend to moderate themselves, much as those in University Hall moderate students' evaluations. We are each of us our own CUF Guide editors. You should reflect, then, about what it means for a TF--a human being (in most cases) just like you, who may or may not be as smart and talented as you are, who may even have gone to a second-rate college such as Yale or Princeton--to confront 30 absolutely candid evaluations of his or her character...
...thought that the Dead Sea Scrolls, with their tantalizing references to the imminent coming of a Messiah, represented the quirky tenets of a fringe sect of Jewish ascetics known as Essenes. But experts now believe that the texts, which include fragments of legal codes, oracles and other literary genres, reflect beliefs widely held in 1st century Judaism...
...seems like every time I open your paper there is a hysterical opinion column about proposed cuts in student financial aid. This gets very tiresome, reading the same thing over and over. Furthermore, the tone of the articles usually seems to reflect an attitude that there is some sort of divine right to attend college--at someone else's expense...