Word: rivalling
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...rigid rationalist bias of the schools and of many educational psychologists (not uninfluenced by Bruner). Jones's contribution is unquestionably timely-not a moment too soon. And considering the adulatory blurbs on the book jacket from big names in psychology (Klein, Hall, Maslow, especially Bruner), the book promises to rival Bruner's in its impact on the educational and scientific communities. But, alas, there are other things to consider...
...problem, says Mayor Ryokichi Minobe, is "too many people." New York City, with 128 sq. ft. of park space per resident, is a verdant paradise compared with Tokyo, which has 7 sq. ft. Real estate values have risen 670% in a decade in some parts of town, and now rival Manhattan's?despite fears that anything built on the land may one day come tumbling down. Mild tremors hit the city almost every day, and experts fret that 3,000,000 would die in another earthquake like the one that flattened the city in 1923. Yet since...
...within the structure. He becomes increasingly militant as he encounters usurious used-car dealers, unscrupulous real estate men and venal cops down at precinct headquarters. The whites, however, come off as no more villainous than the black middle class, especially Jonah's mother-in-law and his rival, an Uncle-Tom sergeant named Vines...
Kahn came to Harvard in 1933 and entered the CRIMSON's spring competition during his freshman year. He dropped out of the comp to write for a rival daily, the Harvard Journal, which lasted 13 weeks. Among the Journal's founders were Joe Thorndike, now managing editor of Life, and former Dean of the College John Munro, who got so involved with the paper, according to Kahn, that he never passed his courses that spring and failed to graduate Harvard...
...Congress Party's harijan leader. It provides him with a powerful fulcrum. When Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri died in 1966, Ram swung his bloc of more than 50 harijan parliamentary votes behind Indira Gandhi, assuring her election as Prime Minister over a conservative Syndicate faction rival. The Syndicate's bosses have never forgiven him. Recently, they tried to break him with charges of tax fraud. As it turned out, Ram had neglected to pay $2,718 in taxes on the earnings from a small investment that had accrued unnoticed over a ten-year period. Indira publicly forgave...