Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...core's wrapping that trouble lies and English suffers erosion, mainly because the editors choose to be "descriptive, not prescriptive." As a result, numerous entries and usage notes, wafting in the sociological winds and whims of the day, are inconsistent and gratuitous, undermining any pretense of rigor, let alone authority...
America's parochial schools have often served as a reproach to the troubled public ones in their communities. Unburdened by the bureaucracy and lethargy that bedevil most big-city school systems, and with a tradition of emphasizing discipline and academic rigor, they have generally been able to turn out better graduates -- while often spending less than half the money per pupil. Now the Roman Catholic Church, worried about declining enrollments and hopeful about the emerging political sentiment to allow public school parents greater choice in where they send their kids, has launched the most extensive marketing campaign ever...
...Catholic schools do it? Mostly by practicing and preaching old- fashioned stuff: values, discipline, educational rigor and parental accountability, coupled with minimal bureaucracy. "Catholic schools have had to make a virtue out of necessity," explains Archbishop Francis Schulte of New Orleans. "These institutions have had to think and act creatively for decades to stretch small budgets...
...What Jack will do is add more rigor and systematic thought to a process that has been thought out over many years," says Treasurer D. Ronald Daniel. "The investment objectives for the endowment have not been pulled out of the air. All Jack is saying is that he will debate them some more...
...intensity of light is evoked, with all the courage of paradox, with a predominant velvety black. The ambiguous forms -- Are the green curved objects in the left foreground melons, as some think, or the backsides of Muslims praying to Mecca? -- combine in a pictorial structure of wonderful explicitness and rigor. One sees in the work painters who would not be born for another 20 or 30 years: Frank Stella, Sean Scully. Clearly, though Matisse left Morocco, Morocco never left...