Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked successfully for the abolition of the House Internal Security Committee, and since the end of the Vietnam and Nixon eras, Drinan has turned his attention to solving the local problems of high unemployment. Mason, although not as far to the right as many Republicans, advocates a standard Republican solution to unemployment--investment tax credits for business--a plan that little benefits the people who suffer most from a sagging economy...
According to Charlotte Burrage of the Cambridge Soliciter's Office, such extensions are standard procedure on construction bids. LaTremouille said, however, that this amounts to a bureaucratic amendment of the law which he termed "clearly illegal...
...complained moderate Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin, since purged, was that students would be leaving the university "without being able to read if the present system continues much longer." The deposed Deputy Premier, Teng Hsiao-p'ing, declared before being purged himself that "university students are below the standard of technical middle-school students of earlier times, in both politics and knowledge...
High Foreheads. Most startling is the dramatically lighted collection of Northwest Indian masks. With their thrusting chins, hooked noses, popping eyes and arrogant high foreheads, the masks could be expressionist versions of the grandees of the Italian Renaissance. "Tell me what difference in standard there should be between these and the dukes of Ferrara," says Coe challengingly...
Disarmingly, but distressingly, Dean concedes that calculating ambition was the sole standard he normally applied as he scrambled for power and influence in the White House. He admits that fear of losing status at the heady heights pushed him easily into criminality. Even when he tells about taking his stand against the President, Dean makes no lofty claim that either personal virtue or an overriding sense of justice motivated his action. Only when he saw, far earlier than most, that the cover-up would not work, either for the President or for himself, did he finally turn against...