Word: representive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, it is the damage done by El Salvador's five-year civil war that has produced the strange bedfellows. Traditionally, coffee has provided more than 50% of the country's export revenues. It still does, but since 1980 income from coffee has shrunk, from more than $615 million to...
To check the operation of a vague generaliy under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked. "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essays with "David...
The artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question. "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" the equivocator would answer it in this way: "some people...
Readers interviewed yesterday said both the cover and the article seemed to represent a change in focus for the magazine, which generally runs Harvard-related features, alumni obituaries and University news briefs.
No seven men and women can represent the myriad variations of the entrepreneurial spirit, of course; such choices are arbitrary. Some celebrated and familiar success stories have been omitted simply because they are so celebrated: Lee Iacocca's rescue of Chrysler, for example, or Steven Jobs' creation of the Apple...