Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Developing countries must implement policy and institutional changes as well as technological advances if they are to find long term solutions to hunger, experts told a crowd of 150 last night at the Kennedy School...
...LACK OF A BETTER term let's call this mental copout "Issue Separation Disease" (ISD, since acronyms seem all the rage these days). A brief description of it might read something like "a tendency to reduce the U.S./Soviet rivalry to dozens of discrete issue areas amenable to separate discussion and resolution." ISD strikes Western liberals particularly hard. In fact, they appear to be the only affected group, and only when they discuss foreign policy. Here are just a few of the easily-diagnosed symptoms...
...council also voted to extend the term of its representative to the Advisory Committee from one year to two years, which is the tenure of faculty, alumni, and representatives from the various graduate schools
...Fuentes, in the second of five years as a fall-term professor at Harvard, this disrespect for conventional boundaries is combined with an enormous reverence for the different elements which make up his novels...
Since their inception in 1960, the debates have grown to epitomize the excesses and shortcomings of modern presidential electioneering. The term "debate" itself has become a misnomer. A panel of interrogators ostensibly steers the discussion, but in practice, their questions serve as little more than cues for the candidates to launch into carefully rehearsed speeches and scripted snippets of humor...