Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example of this, she points to a section she taught last year in which students knew a great deal about the subject of the course, "Women and the American Experience," but little about the broader context it took place...
...place is in the home. But even a more moderate formulation-to the effect that women who prefer being at home should not be discouraged or derided-will evoke debate, scorn or silence in many quarters. So Senior Editor Timothy Foote found when he brought up the subject of Marabel Morgan, whose immensely popular books and Total Woman classes preach just such ideas. When the mere mention of her name at a Long Island dinner party brought a hostile response from the women present, Foote as a journalist "found it a good sign. If people are so stirred by something...
...course, for example, is oversubscribed and most of its "graduates" have subsequently braved higher-level math, statistics or economics. At a third innovator, Mills College in California, a pre-calculus program that stresses the necessity of math for many careers has helped make math the most popular subject among the 850 women undergraduates...
Despite these unsettling signs, many economists believe that their more nervous colleagues are overreacting. Harvard Professor Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME's Board of Economists, estimates that the basic inflation rate remains at about 5½%, and "you add or subtract, subject to how hard you stimulate the economy and how lucky you are about weather and fluctuations in world oil prices." Eckstein forecasts a 6.4% rise in the Consumer Price Index this year-worse than the 5.8% of 1976 but a long way from double digits. Adds John Bunting, chairman of Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Bank...
...hydrologic modeling and the chemistry of air pollution. Convinced that practicing law is much more than winning a case, Ackerman confronts his students with basic, philosophical questions-e.g., "What is justice?" In his course on social justice-he is now writing a book (his fourth) on the subject-he challenges students to "construct a new political-legal order in which values of individual freedom are synthesized with a richer sense of social justice...