Word: term
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...beginning of his second term in 1982, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis gave relief for the homeless his top priority. The Human Services Office program divided the state into 26 areas, each with a local coordinating council of legislators and heads of service groups that directs services for the homeless within that area...
...audience down. He insisted that words, his own and others', should communicate rather than confuse: "When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair." He had no patience with the sloppy or faddish. The spreading misuse of the term hopefully drew a pithy rebuke: "This once useful adverb meaning 'with hope' has been distorted and is now widely used to mean 'I hope' or 'it is to be hoped.' Such use is not merely wrong, it is silly." He gave "finalize" even shorter shrift: "A pompous, ambiguous verb." Funny...
Shuffling wastes from one leaking site to another that may soon turn porous may seem absurd, but there is no way to eliminate all landfills as short-term disposal necessities. The same is true of the use of hazardous- waste incinerators. While they risk befouling the air, they are nonetheless a necessary temporary expedient...
...agenda is Washington's aggressive new approach to the debt problem. Until last week, the Administration was seemingly content to go along with the IMF's stop-gap strategy of extending short-term loans and imposing painful belt-tightening programs on Third World nations. Sensing that those countries are being crushed by their debt burdens, the U.S. now believes that their only hope lies in faster economic growth. To achieve that goal, Washington thinks the IMF should enlist the help of the World Bank, a cash-rich agency that has largely remained aloof from the debt thicket. The Administration wants...
...Psychology and Social Relations Department and the Business School are trying to lure a Yale social psychologist to a joint lifetime post, a step that could signal a long-term expansion of their one-year-old joint degree program...