Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kemp took an instant and immediate dislike to my two friends. He would call them "sister," openly disparage what they said in class, and gave one of them a D. Knowing of Mr. Kemp's reputation, the Radcliffe dean allowed my friend to take a fifth course the following term to make up her failing grade. I don't know whether the Radcliffe administration, headed by President Wilbur K. Jordan, a Harvard professor, ever confronted the Harvard administration for tolerating such blatant sexism, but I never heard that Mr. Kemp was reprimanded, nor that he changed his classroom style...
Swidler credits Bellah with developing ideas "which have become part of the woodwork" of academia, such as the concept of civil religion, a term he coined in an influential 1966 paper, "Civil Religion in America...
Bush described his own actions in the Middle East as one of his greatest accomplishments during his term...
...found the funds, via "certain extra-budgetary sources," to pay for its continued participation in the international space station project. (Russia has to cough up $240 million this year alone.) Translation: Nemtsov may be hinting at a cosmic bailout. "They?ve been talking to European countries about short-term financing in order to get the thing into space," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "Somebody will probably step into the breach with a bailout -- it's an interesting metaphor for the country?s entire crisis...
...already been hesitant about disbursing the next installment of its long-term $10 billion loan to Russia, but more serious is the fact that the IMF is essentially broke, says TIME correspondent Bruce Van Voorst. Replenishment of IMF reserves was stalled by the U.S. Congress's failure to approve an $18 billion contribution. But with a lot of American investors likely to be badly burned if Russia is allowed to go belly up, Gingrich and company may soon be feeling the heat...