Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sydney's south, where my family - South Indians from Malaysia - had settled after immigrating in 1988. And although the Shire, as it's called, is one of the most Anglo-Saxon regions of the country, it was like the rest of Australia in its laid-back attitude to national sentiment. Sure, it was good to be Australian, but the rest of that stuff - the flag-waving, the chest-thumping - was the province of those jingoistic Yanks. When I was a teenager, the flag fluttered benignly on national holidays. There were occasions on which it flew prolifically, such...
...Kremlin certainly has plenty of levers to pull in Ukraine to make its views felt, with its control over gas supplies, alongside the popularity of Russian state-controlled TV in the east and south of the country, where pro-Russian sentiment is strongest. "In certain sections of the Ukrainian political and business élite, there are links with Russia stretching back to Soviet times," says Paliy from the Institute of Foreign Policy. "There are also a large number of Russian-sponsored think tanks in Ukraine, which function freely and push the Kremlin's views...
...what Rosenthal seems to have forgotten: that a severe stigma existed—and still exists, albeit to a lesser extent—against HIV-positive persons. In a recent interview with The Crimson, Rosenthal argued that HIV/AIDS is no longer enough of a stigma to justify testing, a sentiment that has not been echoed by Harvard’s AIDS activists. The option for all HIV testing to remain off a person’s permanent medical record must remain. Paging Mr. Rosenthal: 2009 is not that far from 1996. If UHS wants its students to have to search...
...strong student sentiment over the past few weeks suggests that many students feel staff would disproportionately bear the brunt of budget cuts in the form of layoffs, while University management remains relatively untouched...
...size for the last 10 years. “To propose cutting back on something which is so tightly run as it is, and to target individuals in a House who are both critical to administrators and students, provided a jolt,” he said. Students echoed that sentiment. “This cut, as opposed to the rest, will make students’ lives inconvenient, and hurt them academically,” said Kavita Kannan ’09, a Quincy resident. “And it will put a lot more pressure on the staff...