Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...omitted the most cherished tenet of conservatives: belief in the work ethic. "Anyone who wants to work can get a job." I also question your tenet, "Conviction that people have become too selfish and self-centered, putting their own interests ahead of their families and the country." Many whom I regard as conservatives put their own interests above the national welfare...
Because Radcliffe stresses development as well as intensity, Paget said that administrators' personal encouragement and involvement with Radcliffe athletes is a central tenet of the program. All Radcliffe team captains contacted during the last weeks of school said this aspect of the program needs preserving...
...violating the basic tenet of Michael Demarest's great thesis on procrastination [June 10] by writing early...
...night, "I wanted to cry into the pillow of my bed, but there was no pillow. So I cried right onto the sheet." But after pruning the thicket of countless noble deeds, the book does contain a core of political analysis, centered around anti-Communism as its primary tenet. The Soviet betrayal of socialism is the greatest crime in history for the promoters of this brand of politics, and the Soviety offspring, the nations in what was once known as the Communist Bloc, are consequently enemies of the first magnitude. Vigilant criticism of this is necessary least naive Westerners with...
...MOST BASIC tenet of post-war civil rights ideology was that equal educational opportunity would eventually lead to economic equality thus eliminating the tensions in our society between poor and rich black and white. That was the reason I was placed on a bus every morning and forced to ride seven miles across town to a white school and once there, was told to study hard so that I could get into Harvard. My mother, according to Christopher Jencks '58, associated professor of Education, would have done as well to have let me attend the nearby black school...