Word: terme
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...dramatic. Not only is he changing his habits of thinking and governing, but he is trying to change the way his country develops. Like Mitterrand, Perez has been a socialist since his youth. He is still vice president, under Willy Brandt, of the Socialist International. During an earlier presidential term in the '70s, he nationalized Venezuela's oil industry, slapped controls on prices and interest rates, mandated wage boosts, increased regulation of agriculture and made government-subsidized loans to low-income city dwellers, peasants and small businessmen. Perez personified the socialist conviction that the common good can best be bought...
Despite the possible long-term impact of the review, participants describe it as a low-key process intended simply to give administrators a better understanding of how the teaching of undergraduates is played out on a day-to-day basis...
Pilbeam, whose three-year term as dean ends after the spring semester, says that one of his last acts in office will be recommending to Spence whether a more dramatic review is warranted...
...Career Forum can be useful in a number of ways. Certainly the most common use is for "feeling out" prospects for jobs after graduation, or for term-time or summer internships. You may wish to find out more about the mission of a particular agency, or to ask the representative about other agencies in the same field. The Forum can also serve the important function of allowing you to practice "interviewing" with a representative of an agency without the stakes being too high. One other aspect of the Forum is that many of the for-profit organizations represented also have...
WHEN comedian Jackie Mason recently called New York City mayoral candidate David L. Dinkins a "fancy schvartzer with a moustache" who looked like a "Black model without a job," Jewish and Black groups were quick to criticize him. ("Schvartzer" is a derogatory Yiddish term for Blacks...