Word: wording
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this whole story is that Harvard College specifically protects our right to be secure in the choices we make. The Handbook for Students makes clear that "Every piece of printed matter distributed must carry the name of the sponsoring organization and, in the lower left-hand corner, the word 'approved.'" When the Administrative Board decided not to take action against COCA, it implicitly made an exception to this rule--an exception which seems justified only in that the Ad Board, like Baer and me, happened to agree with COCA's position on this issue...
...affecting my academic work. At first I noticed that I was using the word "construction" a lot in my papers, but it's gotten worse than that by now. Every book I read seems to be arguing its point vehemently, stressing every third word as if the world depended...
...rarely loses, not because the answer is so obscure but because it's so obvious. At an easel, he writes his answer, leaving the word to hang like a biohazard warning sign: EFFICIENCY. "Everything is efficient," he says. "We're so skewed toward efficiency that we've lost our sense of humanity. What we need to do is to bring back a sense of the sacred...
This week's meeting in the Med will bring together the most daring of all Soviet leaders and one of the most cautious American Presidents. Mikhail Gorbachev frequently, and proudly, describes his approach to the world as "radical," while George Bush's favorite word when he talks about foreign policy is prudent. Yet Bush has come a long way in his thinking about the Soviet Union. In a matter of months, his Administration has gone from viewing Gorbachev as a slickly disguised variant of the old red menace to a potential partner in creating a new world order...
Shortly afterward, Bush's aides, particularly Baker, began talking -- first privately, then publicly -- about "helping" Gorbachev. They had heard the H word from their boss, so the taboo was lifted...