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Founded as a language-immersion program of Concordia College, Waldsee is one of 10 foreign-language clusters of Concordia Language Villages, where authenticity is a watchword. When 5,200 children (ages 7 to 18) "cross the border" into their respective villages for one to four weeks, they will be issued passports and exchange U.S. dollars for the appropriate foreign currency. Newcomers will be advised that speaking English is verboten. Speaking German, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Chinese or Japanese is de rigueur...
...resolution to be passed only because of its opponent's political ineptitude. Those who speak out against the resolution must be warned against falling victim to self-strangulating rhetoric when practicality and true political correctness are on their side. Remember now--practicality and not morality is the watchword...
...season where parity has become not only a watchword for league play, but a gross understatement. When only eight points separate the top eight teams, the win-loss column becomes one's only compass...
...business tomorrow. Andy Grove, the Intel CEO who led his microprocessor company through a series of similarly wrenching changes a decade ago, has distilled the essence of competing in a high-tech world down to a single sentence: "Only the paranoid survive." He's right. Uncertainty is the watchword of the new digital age. That's why Microsoft is throwing everything it's got at Netscape. And that's why, despite that onslaught, Netscape still has a chance...
...more traditional rights claims, the issues raised by campaign finance reform ultimately revolve around the fundamental purpose of political participation. If they wish to demonstrate that governmental regulations can contribute to this purpose, reformers ought to make participation as deliberation, as a reflective exercise in collective autonomy, their watchword...