Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office this year, will indicate a lot about what the role of the dean of the college is, and the type of person best suited to fill it. While John Fox has many significant achievements to his credit, he has not been as receptive and outgoing as we would wish a dean of the College to be. We hope that the next dean will be not only a highly efficient administrator, but also a compassionate listener, someone less concerned with the bottom line than with the real needs of students...
...congressional critics, Weinberger and the Pentagon are simply intent on buying every weapon the generals and admirals put on their wish lists, without any overall strategic design or much attempt to weed out those systems that prove ineffective or excessively costly. In a study submitted to Republican congressional leaders last week, a group of G.O.P. lawmakers led by Senators Charles Grassley of Iowa and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas contended in effect that much of the roughly $1 trillion spent on defense in the past four years had disappeared into what Grassley called a "bottomless pit" of Pentagon waste...
...cars and accommodations, VIP treatment at airports, resorts and hospitals off limits to outsiders, special schools for their children, access to stores selling consumer goods and food at reduced prices. They live far removed from the common man and, indeed, have to go out of their way if they wish to rub elbows with the less exalted. The highest group in the nomenklatura is separated from most citizens by a barrier as psychologically imposing as the Great Wall of China. This class constitutes virtually a state within a state...
...would have been terminated starting with next year's freshmen if Spence had refused to sign, and the future of the other ROTC arrangement might have been cast into doubt as well. The reconciliation takes out of limbo those high school seniors who have already won NROTC scholarships and wish to attend Harvard. Furthermore, the option to receive credit for those NROTC courses recognized in MIT's catalogue, specifically three of the eight required by NROTC, simply affirms trust in MIT's ability to designate credit-worthy material, a trust routinely extended for all other courses...
...biggest push for metrication has come from American exporters. Since the U.S. is the only major nation that has not embraced the metric system, companies must adapt to the rest of the world's standards if they wish to sell abroad. About two-thirds of the 1,000 largest U.S. manufacturers now use metrics to some extent, and all U.S. cars are currently designed to metric specifications...