Word: standardly
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...theorists: he is a Straussian, she a post-modernist. And by the fall of 1996 both had been teaching at Harvard for six years, the time when junior Faculty come up for tenure. Tenure, of course, is and never should be expected at a University where the official employment standard is "the best in the world." But a confluence of events--including the government department's approval of both candidates for tenured professorships at the same meeting--raised questions about why they were turned down at the presidential level...
Spending patterns suggest that a certain amount of modern stress arises from a struggle to keep up with ever growing expectations. "What we consider a middle-class standard of living now was considered rich 30 years ago," says Mitchell. "My neighbor lives with his young daughter, and he has three cars. Does he really need three cars? He can only drive one at a time." Children are especially absorbent of discretionary income: the obvious equation is that the less time parents have to spend on their children, the more money they spend, on dance lessons and soccer uniforms...
...Meanwhile, The X-Files draws from a bottomless well of inspiration. Two cartoons and a sci-fi show--why are these better than the programs supposedly about real people and real life? Probably because they are imaginative in ways that would be neither possible nor permissible in TV's standard genres...
...1990s was an insistent desire to feel passion again and show us you care. In 1995 psychologist Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. The best seller was embraced in educational circles because EQ (emotional quotient) offered a way to counter IQ as a standard of intelligence. But it was also a signal that the public at large might be ready, indeed eager, to return to the flagrant emotionalism of the 1960s, though fired by new and different causes...
Take one of our new leaders' favorite issues on the stump: cable television. At first, the cause seems appealing. Cable television has become nearly as standard an amenity in the civilized world as television itself. And if the administration has indeed been close to having the houses wired, only to not take the final step for lack of student prodding, then pushing the envelope now makes sense...