Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transportation of the land mines was a textbook example of the pipeline in operation. "It was a test," said an Afghan agent. "It made us feel that we were helping our brothers inside...
...vehicles traveling along the Salang Road, the main highway between Kabul and the Soviet border. By the following day, little remained of the Soviet procession save smoke, smashed and smoldering trucks, and the body of an Afghan government soldier (left). Four days later, the rebels struck again with a textbook ambush (above and right). They boxed in a Soviet convoy by firing rocket-propelled antitank grenades in front of the enemy vehicles and behind them. Then, from their mountain hideouts, they rained heavy machine-gun fire down upon their stranded prey. Forty Soviet vehicles went up in flames, and pillars...
...dorm residence and regular chapel attendance were dropped, and professors became more professional. He introduced an elective-based curriculum and was the first president to address one of the few academic issues that consistently occupies the Corporation, academic freedom. Except for one incident involving an economics professor's textbook, he introduced the doctrine that Harvard stood for "an absolute freedom from all restriction--governmental, academic, or social--on freedom of thought or speech...
...years ago the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures began searching for new teaching strategies to supplant the traditional regimen of grammar drills and textbook exercises...
...arguments against trade unions are long and familiar; every economics textbook since Samuelson's has insisted that unions restrict the labor supply and extract from management higher wages for a blue collar elite, at the expense of jobs for thousands of others. And ever since organized labor became an integral part of the American economy, experts have called unions inefficient and unproductive because they give too many jobs to unions members who perform superfluous functions. Laymen, too, dislike unions simply for the corruption they feel many unions leaders display...