Word: utmost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investments in South Africa-related companies involve a political statement about that country. The past few months have shown that education similarly does not escape political categorization. The increasingly, but understandably, inflexible consensus of Blacks in South Africa has treated each gesture by foreign countries and institutions with the utmost scrutiny. There is no longer room for compromise and moderation; violence has made such positions untenable...
...that simple. The first tangible hint of American moral attitudes comes on the immigration form: the solemn requirement to swear that you are not a Communist, or not a prostitute, or whatever. To those coming from older and more cynical societies, this is the utmost sort of naivete. For the immigrant, it foreshadows the American conviction that one can mandate, even legislate morality. That conviction represents an amalgam of Puritanism, with its belief in a permanently flawed human nature, and the Enlightenment tradition, with its belief in the perfectibility of man. Cotton Mather, meet Thomas Jefferson. This contradictory combination bespeaks...
...assets: $27.8 million). Santa Maria, who left behind a small family fortune in Havana real estate, attended night school and job-hopped among several banks before being asked by a friend in 1980 to help launch Ponce de Leon. Says she: "I am extremely, I mean to the utmost, thankful to the United States...
...emphasize too much the critical importance of the reform movement now under way all across America. We have a / will and a determination to strengthen our schools and our colleges and to make them even better than they are, and I urge you graduates to do your utmost after you leave here to be strong advocates of American education. Run for the school board. Get involved. Help those who come after you to have the opportunity that you've had. I'd also emphasize to you graduates that you need to be committed to learning and to self-renewal...
...year. Co-Captain Brian Groukau said, "He's phenomenal. By the end of his four years he'll have made quite an impact on Harvard swimming. He's super team player, and had a lot of us looking at his starts earlier in the season. I really have the utmost confidence he'll be one of the best in the world once he adjusts to Harvard swimming...