Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apparently, the i.d. snafu has caused some problems. The raised letters and numbers come into play when the cards are used, for instance, to check out books or to charge purchases on term bills. At least one student we know had trouble getting some medicine last week from the University Health Services pharmacy...
University officials estimate the volunteer project will save it about $500,000 and drum up some pride in the library, which has led to more jokes, legislative inquiries and engineering reports than term papers over the past decade...
...time America woke up and smelled the coffee. Instead of making shady deals for short-term domestic gains, we must play straight on the world market. It's time we started dealing honestly with ourselves--and honestly with our friends...
...policy that will solve the problem of poverty in Central America. (Not that poverty can never be ameliorated. It can. But not by a simple act of political will. In the West, for example, the conquest of mass poverty was the product of two centuries of painful industrialization.) The term root tends to be assigned to the most intractable of conditions. Except in the mind of the revolutionary, that is. The idea of root causes is therefore an invitation to surrender -- to the resistant reality of misery or to the revolutionary who alone offers the promise of instant redemption...
...government's policy worked so well that the fertility rate of the crowded island-state's 2.6 million people is only 1.5 children per family. Now, however, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is concerned that the population will not be large enough to support the government's long-term goals of becoming a high-tech, export-oriented country. Accordingly, an Interministerial Committee on Population is preparing proposals that will encourage Singapore's couples to have more children. To kick off the new campaign, the government has coined a new slogan: "At Least Two. Better Three. Four If You Can Afford...