Word: thought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of the English Department said they were relieved that the issue had been settled by MacFarland's retirement, because they thought it would have provoked controversy if he had asked to return to the committee...
Both doctors and administrators stressed that stricter rules would benefit students, because sex before college graduation was thought to be harmful to the young adult's psyche...
...dozen Soviets landed in Washington last week, but they were not mere tourists. Veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, they came through an exchange that has also taken some 50 American Viet Nam veterans to the Soviet Union. The program has achieved profound communions between men who thought of themselves as enemies. In Moscow, after a Soviet vet ripped open his shirt to reveal a wound caused by a U.S. machine gun, a Viet Nam veteran displayed a leg wound inflicted by a Soviet-made mine. Suddenly, the strangers sensed, as American Larry Oswald put it, that they were...
...their produce at market, but under Deng, the People's Daily remained very much an organ of instruction rather than information, to say nothing of debate. The doors of the Great Hall of the People were shut, figuratively and often literally as well, to the people themselves. Deng thought that China could have a closed Communist Party that would preside over an open economy...
While some have said they thought the new president should be a scholar who would actively engage in undergraduate life, other Radcliffe affiliates have said that fundraising ability should be the new president's main qualification. Many also stressed the importance of picking a president known for speaking out on women's issues...