Word: transients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Newspapers are transient, but books about newspapers are more permanent, if sometimes forgettable...
...found myself trapped as a member of the White House press corps. The facts simply didn't seem to matter anymore; the public cared more about myths and personalities. I didn't get my satisfaction from the political process the way others seemed to. The results were too transient, or too hard to measure, or, if they were measureable, too hard to live with. The political system and the media had become disconnected from the daily realities that should have guided them. Unwilling to give up journalism entirely, but determined not to go on succeeding at the wrong things...
...city that is home to Haitian immigrants, proud Irish Catholics, transient academics and aging Brahmins, Cambridge has long been renowned for both its socioeconomic and racial diversity...
...Nothing is harder than the attempt to sort out the transient ingredients from what ought to be the permanent ingredients of an undergraduate education," he said...
...African American history, literature, and culture under Harvard's traditional liberal arts departments than there are in Afro-American Studies. Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence A. Buell, a proponent of Ethnic Studies, characterized Harvard's ethnic studies offerings as "embryotic [sic] right now--scarcely there except for a transient few courses." Buell clearly hasn't paid much attention to the undergraduate education course offerings. Those "transient few courses" currently number over 130 under the heading, "Courses Related to Ethnic Studies in the United States," in the course catalogue...