Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investors by raiding and liquidating two dreary companies: Management Assistance, a computer maker, and Canal-Randolph, a real estate firm. Suddenly superrich, the Bard College graduate, reared on Long Island, N.Y., bought fashionable residences from Sun Valley to Switzerland, a 100-ft. yacht, a personal jet and a modern-art collection today rumored to be worth $100 million...
...misportrayal of Rawls' "Justice of Fairness" hurts all parties involved. First-year students will graduate from Ec 10 with a flawed concept of an important modern political philosophy. But Ec 10 also suffers. Students who have taken the popular Moral Reasoning course "Justice" or Philosophy 171, both of which treat Rawls in depth, can only become cynical about the Economics Department...
...after setting up a nearly apocalyptic assessment of the standing of higher education in American society, Spence says he is hopeful that the modern research institution will endure--with Harvard leading...
...first session of talks began at 3 p.m. at Prague's Palace of Culture, a modern structure used for concerts and large Communist Party gatherings...
...said Seferis Professor of Modern GreekStudies Margaret Alexiou, "We need to be moreaware of their potential and untapped talent...