Word: resentatives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against expediency is weighed the draft exam and class rank, two adjuncts to II-S with enormous political consequences. Professors do not like the use of class rank as a factor in determining deferment because they resent being drawn into the Selective Service process; psychologists dislike it because, they say, it leads to grade-grubbing and unnatural tension -- and they claim that grades often don't have any relation to performance after college. The draft exam can be attacked: congenital inaccuracy which makes it impossible to answer some questions because the right answer is a) not given or b) given...
Their "overinsistence" on getting boys to conform to their teaching may have "an unconscious getting even quality," because they resent the prejudice men show toward women in the professions. The professors suggest that teachers should become aware of these things and to realize that young boys need "the nurturing warmth of a woman," not harsh words...
...subsequent resignation and Longo's determination to leave with him turn the top management of the Banco del Lavoro into a lame-duck administration and hobble its operations. "We can do absolutely nothing about planning even six months from now," complains one bank official. Even some politicians resent the dumping of Lolli, an expert on international monetary matters whose views on the gold flow have been sought by the U.S. Treasury and Congress. The sequence of events that led to the Longo-Lolli resignations, said an editorial in the left-of-center Republican Party newspaper La Voce Republicana last...
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky moved last week to cool the month-old simmering crisis in his Cabinet. The feud was sparked by the Cabinet's southerners, who resent the fact that most of the top jobs in Saigon and within the government and army are held by North Vietnamese-born refugees from Communism like Ky himself. Skillfully de-escalating the crisis, Ky used earnest pleas for unity to placate most of the seven Cabinet ministers who originally petitioned him to resign. In the end, only four finally left the Cabinet...
While it is sad enough that there are students in the college who resent the expression of dramatic dissent, it is even sadder that these same students were given positions of power by the Administration -- positions that they were able to use to annoy, harass...