Word: reflective
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During his run for the presidency, Jimmy Carter pledged to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term and to increase spending for social programs. His changes in the fiscal 1978 budget, which are going to Congress this week, reflect that precarious balancing act. There are some cuts-but not too many. There is some additional spending-but not too much. The revised budget will not make anybody very happy, but then it will not make anybody too unhappy either. In short, it is quintessential Carter...
Your disheartening observations and the author's discouraging thesis about the state of women's education seem to reflect your experience as Radcliffe undergraduates rather than that at schools which have remained independent. As Baker points out, Radcliffe, unlike the other Seven Sisters, was never self-sufficient; it was always an "Annex," overshadowed if not over-whelmed by Harvard. Even its special contributions to contemporary scholarship and feminism, like the Schlesinger Library and the Radcliffe Institute, are little noticed...
...advantage, it seems to me, of single sex education for women, is that it exposes women to positive role models and encourages them to succeed. Until coeducational institutions like Harvard/Radcliffe have more equal numbers of men and women professors and professionals, until their budgets reflect an equal commitment to male and female athletic activities, until there is equal respect, encouragement, and opportunity for the achivements of women students, the option of women's colleges must be maintained. Elisabeth Griffith Fellow, Institute of Politics John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government
...about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot. The reunion gives a sense that the family cares about itself and is proud of itself. And there is the assumption that you, the family member, are obligated to reflect this pride and, if possible...
Fourth, the median grade may not adequately reflect the academic quality of a course. A high median grade does not necessarily mean that a course was very easy and thus of little academic merit. It could be that the course was taken by many students who had a strong background in the field, or that a professor was succesful in having many students master the material...