Word: versa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheduling decision that Krishna and the Ec Department made is blatantly unfair. Foisting the desires of a small group of students on an unfortunate majority is clearly indefensible. Juggling academics around extracurriculars, rather than vice versa, perverts a university's purpose. And lastly, there is the Economic Department's dubious policy toward athletes. According to Krishna, the department tries to meet the athletes' needs as much as possible...
...been taught to say it. You teach to put the bread and butter on the table, but your true love is your research," he says. "And it's absolutely true, especially at first. Also, to be any good at teaching, you have to be an active researcher, and vice versa...
That is not all he considers. Before he boards the airplane that will take him to Memphis, either to defend his father from his sisters or vice versa, Phillip picks through a tangled skein of memories. The crucial incident in the Carver history, as he sees it, occurred in 1931, when his father moved his family, his wife and four children, including the youngest, Phillip, 13, from Nashville to Memphis. George Carver, an eminently respectable lawyer, had been "deceived and nearly financially ruined" by his business association with a Nashville entrepreneur. Old-fashioned honor demanded a move to a place...
...Palestinian state living side by side with Israel, was also murdered, shot dead in Portugal in 1983. Not too many Palestinians have since risen to take up his cause. It is truer to say that terrorism is a root cause of the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict than vice versa...
Increasingly, university life impinged on public affairs and vice versa. When prominent alumni were infuriated by young Lecturer Harold Laski's vocal support of a Boston police strike in 1919, Lowell said, "If the overseers ask for Laski's resignation, they will get mine...