Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff member of Lamont Library, I would like to comment on Ken Lee's disparaging remarks about Lamont. While "I hate Lamont" unfortunately seems to be a widespread and hastily uttered sentiment, it makes me sick at heart every time I hear it. Even worse are scenes I have witnessed at the circulation desk of Lamont. A patron becomes abusive when the desk worker refuses to tell him or her which of the four other people in the patron's tutorial currently has the only copy of the reserve reading. A professor, or more likely his stressed-out head...
...that the field has come of age--it's exciting and draws good people. A second reason is the widespread awareness among college administrators of demographic problems in recruiting minority students, and the hope that black studies will be a way to increase their numbers. Along with that, colleges are also looking to increase minority faculty recruitment," Appiah said...
Special Ops took on the Texas operation because waterfowl numbers have been plummeting in the face of droughts, habitat loss and illegal hunting and because a preliminary investigation uncovered widespread flouting of the wildlife laws. Leach and other investigators simply masqueraded as duck hunters. Of the 42 hunting clubs visited, an astonishing 41 violated basic waterfowl-protection laws. In the course of the operation, agents regularly documented egregious violations. At one posh club, for instance, an undercover agent was asked by unsuspecting guides to videotape a hunt during which 13 hunters slaughtered 204 birds (139 over the limit for that...
...widespread early complaint was that Administration officials, notably Budget Director Richard Darman, were using sleight of hand to downplay the bailout's true cost. Darman originally seemed to say that the cost to taxpayers would total about $40 billion in the first decade, but that number in fact described only how much the plan would aggravate budget deficits. The actual spending from general revenues would be closer to $60 billion. But purely from an accounting standpoint, its impact will be offset by $20 billion in increased insurance-premium fees to be collected from the banking industry -- even though the funds...
Recognizing the widespread nature of anti-Semitism in modern society, the new Church document condemns it as "the most tragic form that racist ideology has assumed in our century." In an attempt to dispel the myth that the Catholic Church was supposedly complacent in the face of Nazi racism, the document notes that Popes Pius XI and Pius XII condemned Nazi anti-Semitism in four official statements between...