Word: employment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maguire said he expected work study will employ about 1000 undergraduate men next year, up from 600 this year, and 550 women, up from 275, squaring the program with Harvard's approximately 2 to 1 male-female ratio...
...each society has its own heroes and villains, its own ideals of man, and its own values. Whatever I do, I make my students understand that the Euro-centric perception of man and of beauty is not the only perception of man and beauty and that one has to employ an historical methodology to understand the truth of this statement...
...people are trying to move their countrymen. Combatants in the abortion arena rally around "right to life" and "freedom of choice." Opponents of nuclear power cry, "No nukes," while proponents answer that it is "safer than sex." Liberated homosexuals chant, "Gay pride"; their detractors plead, "Save our children." Blacks employ "black is beautiful" for self-encouragement and "black power" as a statement to the established order. And the elderly now demand "gray power." Proposition 13, though a California event, has become a rallying call everywhere among rebels hoping to achieve tax reductions...
Carter has stressed the United States' commitment to retaining strong cultural, economic and educational ties with the Republic of China. Moreover, there is no indication, as Teng has reiterated, that China will employ military force to reunite what it has traditionally viewed as a single nation. As one American sinologist has wryly observed: ultimately the United States always retains its right to defend any province of China that is entirely surrounded by water...
Cortazar has long been in the vanguard of contemporary Latin American authors who employ surrealist and experimental techniques. With his emphasis on fantasy and indigenous mythology, and his use of innovations in novelistic form, he attempts to assert his intellectual independence from Western literary traditions. Like his Argentine compatriot, Jorge Borges, Cortazar portrays a reality in which past, present and future exist simultaneously; a world where his characters are trapped in the labyrinth of modern society. Cortazar's two best-known works, the short story "Blow Up" (on which director Antonioni based his film) and the novel Hopscotch, exemplify...