Word: truistic
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...MOST STRIKING fact that emerged from the spate of campus demonstrations this spring was the inability of the administration to respond gracefully to student complaints. Student movements lately have ranged from the most self-serving to the most al truistic--from law School students sitting-in to protest a grading policy change to rallies in support of divestiture. But University administrators have fueled almost all of them by giving students the impression that they don't give a damn...
...then" sequence is that if we ignore the handicaps then a lot of people will probably suffer and die, withough any chance for the salvation the fundamentalists want for them. In its new-found political limelight, the Moral Majority is seducing too many Americans into its truistic fantasyland. In its zeal to communicate the Word, the Moral Majority has forgotten who spoke it, and why. In its new-found political confidence, the Majority has intimidated America into doubting its confidence in the human ability to discern problems and try to solve them...
This sounds truistic, but it is important: when a team has its scoring so arranged, it is working well. The defense, which did not score, checked back beautifully, and came up to feed the forwards almost as well...
...head of every sponsored radio show hangs a heavy threat: its Hooperating.* If the rating is too low, the sponsor usually cancels the show. Results: 1) new shows, which take time to win an audience, often die aborning; 2) U.S. radio is encouraged to stick to the trite and truistic; 3) the Hooper system has more influence than friends among radio show folk...
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