Word: vanguardism
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Smith is—and has been since freshman year—at the vanguard of Harvard’s progressive movement. His political persuasion is unlikely...
...With Harvard graduates being at the vanguard of the political, academic, and economic worlds, we feel that the College should prepare us to deal with the troubling issues stemming from the 21st century’s first war,” DeAraujo wrote in an e-mail he sent to several groups encouraging students to apply...
...certainly a lot of talk about it, but it doesn?t seem to make much sense to me, according to what I?ve heard. First, there?s only 1,200 or so of them there - not really the size that you?d expect to be a part of a vanguard assault on the city. As one official put it, "that?s enough to get into trouble, but not enough to get out." In other words, you don?t want to cross that Mogadishu line where you?ve got U.S. forces stuck in the middle of a disaster without sufficient support...
...first PCs cost $3,000 to $5,000. The analogy is worth pondering. The brave souls who bought those early PCs were willing to cough up big bucks not simply to own computers that were small and powerful but also to be part of a kind of revolutionary vanguard. Will consumers today make the same calculation about the Segway...
...couple marry, they will join a youth vanguard marrying interracially in increasing numbers and meeting greater--though far from total--tolerance from their families. The number of mixed-race marriages--between whites, blacks, Asians and Hispanics--has more than doubled since 1980, from 2.5% to 5% or, by some estimates, 6% today...