Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This clinical trial is merely one of hundreds of clinical trials," Ringer said. "We want to keep expectations down...
...like the materials I work on and want to spend time on them, and teaching and writing seem to be the logical components of it," Li said...
...recent book For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Jedediah Purdy '97 has written a sermon urging us to take seriously serious things. Above all, the author writes, acknowledge your responsibility to the communities you live in, then shoulder it. For those who want to argue, consistently, against this imperative, there are several vacant cabins in Montana. Jobs on Wall Street await those who do not debate the point. But probably most of us think that working for the common good is not an altogether bad thing. Some of us might admit as much in public...
...book, like his, that goes farther and accuses irony of corrupting public spirit goes too far. Cowardice, tact and irresponsibility all, as Purdy points out, often enlist irony in disavowing publicly a private conviction. For example, someone might say, "Why do I want to work in investment banking, you said? Oh, for the safe money, of course." Most people, after all, don't want to get caught holding an unfashionable belief. What's the news? But my purpose here is not to defend an everyday kind of hypocrisy. Nor, on the other hand, is it to defend the high tradition...
McNamara also urged students not to challenge the perpetrator on their own. She said that police do not want to see a repeat of last week's confrontation in Thayer, during which students wrestled with a robber and then chased him down the hall...