Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Now is the time to reexamine why we argued for women appointments: Is that all we really wanted, a woman in power? Or was it something more, a way to challenge how the system is run? Did it matter which women were appointed? Do women have to conform to the...
SUNDAY night, after studying four hours for my biology exam, after writing several pages of a social studies paper and after outlining three more essays for another take-home final, I noticed something.
-- Almost simultaneously, say some Congressmen and agribusiness executives, the Administration quietly shelved a Soviet request to buy U.S. soybean oil for the first time. The Soviets offered to purchase 200,000 tons, worth $120 million, using subsidies extended to other buyers of U.S. surplus soybean oil. Says one agribusiness executive...
Throughout Egypt, the story is much the same. The walls of the Temple of Luxor, some 400 miles upriver from Cairo, are cracking so badly that President Hosni Mubarak, visiting the site in February, called for a thorough restoration. Nearly a fifth of the wall paintings at the tomb of...
There is something in all of this. But even the most left-wing journalist would have a hard time saying with a straight face that he misses the days (just three or four years ago) when unions forbade the use of computers at newspapers. Even the opposition Labor Party isn...