Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also wonder why Katz says that endorsing the non-ordered choice proposal would be caving in. Most people, including Katz it seems, don't fully understand what non-ordered choice would mean for them. If we had non-ordered choice with three choices, the only difference between it and the present system would be that around percent fewer of the students would get their first choice (33 percent instead of near 50 percent) and 20 percent more of the students would get their third choice (33 percent instead of around 10 percent). Also, non-ordered choice has an added benefit...
...People know you as a sort of religious social worker. Do they understand the spiritual basis of your work...
...matters. "The things I fought for are now considered quaint," complains Erica Jong, a best-selling feminist novelist. "We've won the right to be exhausted, to work a 30-hour day. Younger women say, 'Who wants that?' They say, 'We don't need feminism anymore.' They don't understand graduating magna cum laude from Harvard and then being told to go to the typing pool...
...case Sullivan did not understand that inviting the Hatch nominees into the department was a condition of the Senator's support, Hatch also relayed his list to Sununu, who could be counted on to recognize a quid pro quo when he saw one. "The Administration promised to put antiabortion people all around Sullivan," complains Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. "They made sure he wouldn't exercise independent judgment." Hatch brushes off all of the protests. "Bush has said he stands for certain principles," the Senator says. "So why should he appoint...
...would be ill advised and probably not what the Soviets want in any case. Abalkin has already mentioned that the Soviets would like to be given the trading status of most favored nation, along with more freedom to import high-technology goods. But by and large, Soviet economists understand that they have to solve their own problems. Said Abalkin: "We have an old Russian saying, 'Drowning men must save themselves...