Word: revisionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PBHA members on official business were involved in 24 traffic accidents this summer, which resulted in a revision of PBHA's vehicles policy this fall.
British Prime Minister John Major told Parliament that he was the target of a blackmail attempt by the owner of Harrods, the London department store. Major said Mohamed Al Fayed had attempted through an intermediary to seek a meeting with him to obtain the withdrawal or revision of a government...
The document, authored by Paul C. Martin, chair of the faculty committee on research policy, is a suggested revision of the University rules governing research and professional activities.
The aforementioned reasons admissions officers provide for making the change seem relatively straightforward. Student leaders and campus intellectuals offer more interesting interpretations of the revision.
He makes a good point. In the end, adding "distinction" to "diversity" looks fairly meaningless. So don't worry: it doesn't represent any substantive change in the content of our impecable education. It's simply a matter of semantics. The revision wasn't prompted by any radical transformation taking...