Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other questions in the referendum concern variable meal plans, the reestablishment of a teaching center similar to the one at Hilles Library last year, the distribution of free toilet paper at the River Houses and foreign study programs...
...psychologists; however, there is no place for students to get advice specifically about their writing--about style, grammar, technical methods to snap out of writer's block, or help with a specific paper. Counselors at the above organizations and many students have expressed the desire for a service similar to the Hilles Writing Center that was shut down at the end of the 1977-78 academic year. The Center provided free, unpressured, one-to-one counselling to all interested students...
...director of religious liberty for the National Council of Churches: "Adolescents who have been ignored by their families and their peers find themselves the center of attention of an attractive group of young people who spend hours talking and working with them." This is not just an American phenomenon. Similar groups have sprung up in Western Europe and Japan. Writes Byong-Suh Kim, chairman of the sociology department at New Jersey's Montclair College: "Japanese society has become highly fragmented and materialistic, making young people long for communal solidarity with an authoritarian figure and specific behavior guidelines...
Inevitably, the peculiarly American and Californian ambience caught the eye of many foreign observers. California, noted the Statesman of India with considerable accuracy, is "the home of a hundred strange cults from the merely dotty to the disgusting." A reflection along similar lines prompted Columnist Mustafa Amin of Egypt's al Akhbar to wonder why Jones had not been stopped earlier by the police or the CIA. Yet France's daily Le Monde, which is frequently critical of American policy, found the massacre "unAmerican." Said the paper: "It would have been inconceivable, and without doubt unrealizable...
...comrades of the Middle Kingdom. Peking's People's Daily has just completed a series of articles arguing that if the Four Modernizations are to be achieved, China needs new commercial, criminal and civil codes. The official news agency has reported that quasi-independent "procuratorates," vaguely similar to U.S. grand juries, have been re-established throughout China. These bodies were abolished during the Cultural Revolution-the heyday of Mao's effort to create a society in which the only law was his word...