Word: stressed
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...this reason he laid special stress on the importance of religious faith as part of a liberal education. Pusey said he was well aware that the subject of religion causes "ambiguity and difficulty" in a university community which contains both believers and non-believers...
...medical school is unique: it is part of the university's division of biological sciences, puts stress on research and theory as opposed to the "humanitarian" approach at many other medical schools. "You could be the most humane doctor in the world," explains Dean H. Stanley Bennett, "and if you're uneducated, you're no good." Chicago's medical students learn alongside biochemists, microbiologists, pharmacologists. More than half go on to teaching and research at other medical schools...
...times James seems so close to the existentialists that it may be misleading to stress the differences. Yet he never extols the virtues of existential dread. For the sensitive human being, he knew, anxiety of this sort is unavoidable. But it is something to recover from, not a state in which to remain--except for the purpose of writing existentialist manifestos. In short, the plight of man is his sense of existence; his salvation, the concomitant power to mediate and refine. The sense of individual existence is not the "absolute truth" for James. Indeed, the realm that confers meaning upon...
...housework, yet attractive enough to be worn in public. Mafatlal has made deals with 34 Indian retail shops to sell his fabrics at low markups and plans to make more such arrangements. He has also taken the unusual step of placing ads in Indian newspapers and magazines to stress his company's interest in the public's welfare as well as in its rupees. "We advertise," he says candidly, "to create good will for private enterprise...
Education, we say, must stress individuality, but by this we mean something quite different from the concept of privacy and withdrawal, which in fact is but a pleasant term for what should more accurately be called "atomism...