Word: standards
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During his speech to the Mexican congress, which Carter delivered in Spanish, the president said Mexico's new found oil and natural gas riches will help lift the Mexican standard of living closer to that of the United States, which in turn will help slow immigration north...
Both Dean Fox and Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said last September that even though Brown and other Ivies may do otherwise with their undergraduates, Harvard has a "standard of excellence" to maintain, and probation is the most effective way to maintain it. But as Rev. Peter Gomes pointed out at the convocation of the Kennedy School of Government last October, "excellence is not enough." There are more important things than efficiency and excellence in an academic community. For example, there is the dedication to the quality of a student's education with concommitant respect given...
...Chinese desire to play the "American card" in a sort of balance of power game. I think the second reason was clearly Taiwan, to entice the United States away from the Taiwanese--certainly to the detriment of Taiwan, from the Taiwanese viewpoint. The third reason is that the standard of living in China is still very, very low in comparison to the United States and even to the West and the Soviet Union. I think the Chinese were quite clear in pointing out in their recent visit that they want American technology--particularly in the agricultural sphere...
...hour meeting that some present described as "intense," the directors voted unanimously to reject the $40 offer. McGraw apparently won unanimity by harping on his two main arguments: 1) that an Amexco takeover would undermine the editorial independence of McGraw-Hill publications, especially Business Week and the Standard & Poor's bond-rating service, and 2) that Amexco President Roger Morley had committed a "serious breach of trust" by serving as a McGraw-Hill director while Amexco was preparing its bid-a charge that McGraw repeated in a letter to share holders announcing the rejection...
...County police have traditionally projected an iron-fisted, shoot-first-ask-question-later image. Within a four-week period last year, white P.G. policemen fatally shot two unarmed black suspects. In nearby Washington, D.C., it is a standard warning that you don't venture into PG County unless absolutely necessary, and never at all after dark. "The police there don't take kindly to intruders, and they keep their own blacks squarely under thumb," as one black D.C. resident who used to live in P.G. County...