Word: starts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professors who slip into a second stage begin to see their scholarship as meaningless, repetitive drudgery and start resenting students. In the final, deepest stage, Machell says, "professors view students as enemies. They become angry and paranoid, constantly worrying that students or administrators are talking about them...
From a free-market perspective, then, there is no justification for a special tax break for capital gains. If advocates of a capital-gains break wish to concede that they are socialists engaged in large-scale Government intervention in the economy, we can start again from the top on that basis. Of course, if we're talking socialism, it will be a lot harder to avoid the fairness issue...
...Propose deep mutual cuts in military forces and expenditures going well beyond those under consideration in START and conventional-arms talks...
...bloc's reform-minded leaders -- has presented a blueprint for the future of the Continent as a whole. Will Gorbachev's "common European house" mean political as well as economic integration with the West? Will the Warsaw Pact remain intact? Will the two Germanys reunify? "Before you start taking an old structure down," says Karel Doudera, a Czech expert on German affairs, "it is not a bad idea to have in hand the materials for the new one. But in this case...
...Irish will put up a good fight, even when they're shadowboxing. So Christy Brown had a head start in his battle against petrifying cerebral palsy. There were other crippling odds to buck. He was the tenth of 22 children born to a sod-poor Dublin bricklayer. For the first nine years of Christy's life, his siblings tended him as they would a houseplant: feed it, water it and keep it out of the way. Only his mother dared nurture him with her fierce, uncompromising love, and one day Christy stuck a piece of chalk in his left foot...