Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether Carter's tolerance stems from an unhealthy cronyism or a sympathetic willingness to forgive faults is not clear. But it does not reflect favorably on his sense of political reality. Although Carter has made some excellent Cabinet appointments, his choice of Lance and his concentration of Georgians on the White House staff do not square with his frequent assertions that he has sought the best possible person for each...
...student said the increase in previous work experience would naturally tend to reflect higher starting salaries at graduation. This student, aged 29, said he earned more than $22,000 during the first eight months of this year before coming to Harvard...
...Samp, a first-year Business student, said the increase in previous experience would tend to reflect higher starting salaries at graduation. Samp said he made more than $22,000 during the first eight months of this year...
...Panama City. Panamanians ngw call the thoroughfare the Avenue of the Martyrs as a reminder of the 1964 riots, in which 21 Panamanians and four Americans were killed in several days of fighting along the line. The words BASES NO, painted on billboards and walls around the city, reflect the overwhelming sentiment among volatile students. "The treaty will have to be X-rayed by the university," says Anayka Mercado, 19, a student at a private technical school...
...what sociobiologists preach. "Social theory," he says, "ought to be looked at from the standpoint of what its implications are. It's not like particle physics." Wilson's book, for instance, raises some unsettling questions that most social theorists shy away from: Is it possible that social classes reflect genetic differences? Do the upper classes gradually accumulate a separate and superior gene pool? After stating that the idea has "plausibility," Wilson goes on to say there is "little evidence" of its truth: culture moves too fast, and even the 2,000-year-old castes of India are not genetically different...