Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sagan headed for the University of California at Berkeley, where he spent two years as a research fellow; he insisted on taking a turn at teaching a class, even though the terms of his contract did not require it. At the Stanford University School of Medicine he delved into the origins of life. Then he went off to teach and do research at Harvard and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass...
Since then, the evangelical right has not so much risen as erupted. In addition to Moral Majority, two other major organizations have sprung into action. The Religious Roundtable, founded by Ed McAteer, a onetime toothpaste salesman in the Bible Belt, concentrates on holding briefings to teach ministers and lay evangelicals how to get out the conservative vote. Christian Voice, led by the Rev. Richard Zone, campaigns openly for and against specific candidates, which it can do because, unlike the other groups, it does not claim a tax exemption...
...face of a shrinking academic job market, GSAS initiated the six-week program to teach Ph.D.'s the "language and jargon of business," Martyn said...
...when plebes are put through basic training or "Beast Barracks," are a cadet's introduction to the system. "We take people who are just like you," one senior explains as 4000 identically dressed people eat cold pizza in the world's largest dining hall, "and in six weeks, we teach them to be one of us." It's like an initiation into a fraternity, explains another, "a big fraternity." "The new cadet's waking hours are completely controlled," reads the plebe's bible, or Bugle Notes. "They don't have time to think," one cadet explains. "We want it that...
...daughter has been a Hare Krishna for eleven years, and I have come to understand the philosophy of this religion. I am proud of the palace the Hare Krishnas built in West Virginia [Sept. 15]. I know of no schools in this country that could teach the art of building such magnificence as well as these devotees have done "by trial and error." We need more palaces like the one in West Virginia...