Word: standardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Outside the department, BSA has its own agenda, and it needs issues, and Afro-American Studies Department is an issue," says Huggins. "It's a standard, regular issue for it. I haven't any problem with that. If you're a student organization you need to have some issues...
Critics quickly pointed out that Pons and Fleischmann never used a control experiment, although controls are standard scientific practices expected even of first-year chemistry students. Without a control experiment, it was impossible to tell for sure if the heat generated in the experiment came from fusion or from a previously unknown chemical reaction...
...example, the Moral Reasoning component of the Core faces a particularly severe shortage of courses, largely because its definition is interdisciplinary and requires innovation from standard departmental courses. In fact, the subcommittee report says that when courses, such as the ever-popular Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice," need to be replaced, the Core area will face difficulty in finding adequate substitutes...
...within an educational institution speaks volumes about what it values in teaching and research. Ideas of merit, then, come to reflect the perspective of a society which has utilized this criteria in order to historically maintain racial domination, such that objective justice dictates that Harvard should erect a corrective standard which provides equal opportunity. However, if one reads the responses of Harvard's academic leaders to the Report submitted by the University's Association of Black Faculty and Staff, there is a grudging admission that the situation is not yet just. So, the existence of diversity as a legitimate principle...
Some have criticized Bush for wavering on a ban of semni-automatic weapons. Bush indeed banned the imports of semi-automatic weapons, and, while he has not followed suit on domestic production, his action set a standard which the rest of the nation has begun to follow. The California legislature has since passed a bill banning such weapons; 22 states have established waiting periods and background checks for potential gun buyers Soft on guns? Hardly, and certainly better than furloughs...