Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with the rigid nature because having a good TF is really important," said Alissa S. Brotman '97, a student member of the CUE. "But in order to explain one confusion, I need a TF who attended lecture that...
...options were discussed at the meeting and both will be placed before the Faculty Council: a rigid rule requiring TFs to attend lectures and an accompanying proposal which would allow instructors to excuse TFs from lectures only under certain circumstances...
...proposition if it's going to help teaching. I like and support that," Associate Professor of Applied Mechanics Howard A. Stone said. "But a rigid rule--I don't see logistically how it would work. I'm troubled by a rigid requirement...
Arguments against the rigid rule focused on two reasons TFs miss lectures: class conflicts and enough familiarity with the material that hearing a lecture may be a waste of time...
Such conditions for intervention constitute a Platonic ideal. To the extent Weinberger's list is followed, it is a rigid rule book that would keep American troops out of almost everywhere. If it is applied loosely, however, it is simply a set of common-sense precautions any President would take if he could. Even Vietnam does not measure up badly on that scale. For years the war was popular, the U.S. had a clear goal in defending the South, it was convinced intervention was in the national interest and, with a ratio of about 20 North Vietnamese killed for each...