Word: tome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon after Bok, Fox offered his own tome, this one a history and evaluation of recent race relations at Harvard. Fox essentially reiterated past Harvard positions--such as the University's opposition to the establishment of a Third World center--as well as emphatically stating that Harvard seeks neither "separation" nor "assimilation" of minority students, but instead a middle ground of "integration...
...unveiling, Rev. George E. Ellis, Class of 1833, remarked that "as far as man's high gifts can supply the want of a true model, the sculptor has so far moulded the bronze figure of John Harvard. He rests his hand on the open tome between his knees, and gazes for a moment into the future, so dim, so uncertain, yet so full of promise, of promise which has been more than realized...
...probably didn't notice it, but it happened last night. Maybe you were chatting with your roomates, washing your grungy exam period clothes, or rereading that classic tome Courses of Instruction...
Industrial policy. The term sounds as if it might be the title of a dense academic tome, of interest to only the most diligent of scholars. To the contrary, industrial policy has suddenly become a centerpiece for ringing political speeches and a lightning rod for public debate. It is extolled as a salvation for the U.S. economy and denounced as a step toward socialism. Most Democratic presidential candidates have endorsed some form of industrial policy, hoping to use it as a springboard to the White House. Critics call it "Democratic supply-side economics...
...professor of economics at Cambridge University from 1965 to 1971; in Cambridge, England. In 1933, she published the iconoclastic Economics of Imperfect Competition and became the only woman in the small circle of scholars who met regularly with John Maynard Keynes to discuss the early drafts of his revolutionary tome, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). A prolific author (20 books, scores of articles), Robinson attempted to merge Marxian analysis with modern economics and harshly criticized "Bastard Keynesians" who, she believed, distorted the master's theories. Seeing little hope for "cruel" capitalism, she predicted...