Word: toward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With barely a year before the first primaries, the already crowded Republican presidential school is drawn toward Carter like sharks to blood. One after another, the G.O.P. hopefuls last week attacked what now seemed their best immediate target, Carter's foreign policy. Ronald Reagan led the way: "I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into the escape helicopter." Former Texas Governor John Connally charged that the coming SALT ΙΙ treaty will do nothing "but legitimize...
...answer is obvious: the pressure toward mediocrity is simply too enormous to resist. To stand out one need perform only slightly better than the prevailing level of incompetence. To do much more is to play the fool-doing others' work -and invites the hostility of coworkers...
...other in the the east on the major rail link that parallels Highway 1, the jugular thoroughfare from Friendship Pass. Both thrusts appeared to aim directly at Viet Nam's capital. At the same time, an auxiliary Chinese force, spearhead units of an estimated three more divisions, probed toward the coast for a possible end run aimed at cutting off Highway 4 to Lang Son and later, perhaps, the main Vietnamese reinforcement and supply route of Highway 1, which years ago gained the dolorous nickname "street without...
...reduce us to beings only concerned with the satisfaction of animal desires, the undisguised genocidal practices to which Afro-Americans are subjected daily (over 50 per cent of the U.S. prison population is black), the gross unemployment of our youth (over 60 per cent unemployed) while billions go toward arms procurement on the ground that the U.S. commitment to European allies is more important than the livelihood of our people. There is a deliberate attempt to keep Afro-Americans in ignorance and thereby obfuscate their thinking clearly about the nature of their oppression...
...Faculty Council may take a step toward remedying its non-committal image next week if it approves the reforms in tutorial legislation recommended by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education. These proposed reforms seek to combat the gross discrepancies between stated University policy and actual practice by requiring professors to teach more tutorials...