Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, make textbook lists public. As of now, all students inevitably find themselves forced to buy at the Coop. Although some humanities textbooks are available at other bookstores, science textbooks can rarely be found elsewhere. Notebooks, pens, and other non-essentials--even Harvard insignia clothing--exist at other stores in the square. But the Coop has a virtual monopoly on textbooks, the fundamental item in every class, and prices them uncompetitively. If other bookstores had access to these lists, students would get better deals as numerous bookstores vied for their attention...
...economics in Ec 10. But, according to an article in last Sunday's New York Times, the same is not true in Russia. Yes, Russia. According to the article, first-graders in Russia are being taught concepts such as profit, loss and capital accumulation. The article reports: "A new textbook published this year, Economics for Little Ones or How Misha Became a Businessman, tells the story of a simple but industrious bear who opens a...store in the forest. His sole competitor is described as Winnie the Pooh's Over-priced Golden Beehive Cooperative, and Misha soon trades his apron...
Timing it perfectly, Sproule slid the puck across the crease to Allman who finished the textbook play by burying the puck...
...noted that textbook prices are largely determined by the publishers and vary based on the edition and the audience to which they cater...
...examples of his profound wisdom: "A is A," "Existence exists," "Freedom is the right for man to think" and--my favorite--"The good man lives, thinks, produces and respects others." He highlighted his otherwise vacuous talk with some select quotes from Rand's fiction and tossed in a few textbook points from Kant and Aquinas to make it all seem more legitimate, i.e. academic. Of course, the audience members, waving their well-thumbed copies of The Fountainhead, furiously shook their heads in hearty agreement...