Word: vaguer
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...addition to several detailed cuts, such as the closure of the Widener Library Cafe and the Student Organizations Center at Hilles Penthouse coffee bar, the list included a number of vaguer items that implied possible future changes to staff hours, the number of Teaching Assistants and Teaching Fellows who help teach College courses, and long-term capital projects...
...addition to several detailed cuts, such as the closure of the Widener Library Cafe and the Student Organizations Center at Hilles Penthouse coffee bar, the list included a number of vaguer items that implied possible future changes to staff hours, the number of Teaching Assistants and Teaching Fellows who help teach College courses, and long-term capital projects...
...away from the Jordanians and Egyptians, under whose suzerainty they had been living, the Palestinians forged nationalism out of anger and searing loss. And gradually the vocabulary of the Palestinians' struggle changed. Today Palestinians speak less of a battle against the Israelis for land and rights than of something vaguer and more dangerous, framed in the apocalyptic terms of a holy war. The 1967 conflict, says Michael Oren of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, the author of a book on the war, "hastened the downfall of Arab secularism and opened the doors to the new idea of Islamic radicalism...
...rather than take the next logical step and allow students to take more specific “knowledge-based” departmental classes instead of vague Core classes, the committee has opted for the opposite tack. The report sets out eight areas of general education with even vaguer titles than our current Core divisions, apparently favoring interdisciplinary superficiality over depth and coherence...
...Hebron talks. The result was that the Palestinians won a number of concessions. Most significant, the Israelis gave up their insistence on obtaining an explicit right, in the event of a security emergency, to re-enter areas in Hebron from which they had withdrawn. Instead, they settled for a vaguer formulation allowing each side to argue its interpretation. The Israeli compromises, U.S. officials say, should have enabled the deal to be clinched weeks ago. Says a senior State Department official: "We increased the pressure from our side for an agreement to be reached...