Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary of the Interior, who deliveredthe "State of the Union" address to Model Congressparticipants yesterday, said that the55-mile-an-hour speed limit should be repealedbecause it lies within the sphere of state...
...only two months ago, after spending seven years under virtual house arrest in the closed city of Gorky, concluded, "I don't know what Gorbachev wants personally, but there are a number of people at the top who understand that without democratization, all of his goals in the economic sphere ((and)) international sphere cannot succeed." In Washington, the Reagan Administration welcomed the Kremlin's announcement but called for the release of the remaining political prisoners and a relaxation of Soviet policy on emigration...
...decade, what with McCarthyism, segregation, the Cold War, the universal conservatism and intolerance. But modern Fifties nostalgia, generated by people who were children back then, is a peculiar kind of tunnel vision that never notices such nastiness. America was complacent and happy, a superpower without a rival in any sphere, and the meaning of life could be easily fit into a popular song with room for doo-wops and a chorus. What a time it was. No wonder we can't seem to get enough...
...graveyards of the economic reforms. The record of the anti-rightist campaign as well as the experience of the attempt to limit the spread of Western and "bourgeois" ideas, the drive against "spiritual pollution" only three years ago, indicates that such movements inevitably spill over into the economic sphere...
Concern about the honor code's effectiveness ultimately prompted a student-faculty committe to examine the system in 1954, says Radcliffe's archivist, Jeanne Knowles. The committee concluded that "...in the academic sphere, the honor system is ineffectual as a guide to conduct at the present time...