Word: shorthanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cities from Tucson to Tacoma, the term Los Angelization has become shorthand for the complex of urban problems that spring from trying to absorb huge influxes of new people. As residents of fast-growing Western cities contemplate the noxious haze descending on their skylines, the cookie-cutter subdivisions springing up on previously untrammeled hillsides and in pristine deserts, the freeway-choking traffic jams and the youth gangs dealing crack on their street corners, they fear that L.A.'s present could be their future, and the prospect throws them. When people in San Diego conjure up a Boschian vision...
Lewison Lee Lem, a Harvard admissions officer, calls this parental attitude "the Beida syndrome." Beida, which refers to Peking University in Mandarin, is shorthand for the push in Asian countries to be accepted at the top national institution, a tradition that stems from the Confucian emphasis on bureaucratic status via education. Once admitted, students are guaranteed a secure future, and parents feel they have done their duty...
Rights and Responsibilities, the magazine's subtitle, represents shorthand for a public debate that extends far beyond Etzioni and his coterie. William F. Buckley Jr. in his latest book, Gratitude, puts an old-line conservative imprimatur on national service. The February issue of Harper's features a symposium on whether the Constitution needs a "Bill of Duties" to offset the Bill of Rights. The Harper's panel, which included Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon, a co-editor of Responsive Community, came to no firm conclusion. But Glendon conveyed a sense of how communitarians view personal responsibility with this hypothetical...
...college admissions here and elsewhere, yet The Crimson seems to misunderstand how the term "tip" is used. "Tips" come into play at the point when the Committee is looking for positive reasons to admit a candidate, as relatively few of the many qualified candidates can be admitted. The shorthand terminology--"tip"--does not suggest that the "positive weight" given to a candidate can be quantified or otherwise expressed as a formula...
Originally known as the "voucher system" and now often referred to under the innocuous shorthand of "choice," the theoretical concept is daringly simple. Instead of funding and administering public schools through stifling bureaucracies, government would provide tuition vouchers for every student. These could be cashed in at any state-certified school -- public, private or perhaps even parochial. Ideally, the result would be that schools of all kinds -- both old and new -- would jostle and compete in the free marketplace...