Word: watchword
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Paradox has long been a watchword of international climate change mitigation efforts. The United Nations Climate Change Conference, ending today in Copenhagen, has so far done more to bolster this notion than it has done to bind nations in new measures to combat our environmental crisis...
...about the library,” Hamburger assured the group before asking for clarification regarding the idea of “structural change” evoked by the FAS administration. Invoking the concept of “reshaping”—something of an administrative watchword in recent weeks—Faust said she did not want to “unduly constrain” the imagination of faculty members as the six working groups charged with reviewing further budget modification draw up proposals. “I don’t want to impose...
...Caution in India may be a watchword considering the global recession and Wal-Mart's blemished track record overseas. In 2006, the company pulled out of Germany and South Korea in the face of stiff competition and poor sales. Still, Wal-Mart has been weathering the economic crisis better than most. The company on May 14 announced it earned $3.02 billion in the three months ended April 30, about equal to the profit it made in the same period in 2008. Revenue fell 0.6% to $93.47 billion from $94.04 billion a year earlier. Highlighting the growing importance of markets such...
...Choice” has indeed been a watchword in campus curricular conversations of late. While the recently-concluded curricular review dithered about outlining a vision for general education in the 21st century, most students’ complaints continued to center less on pedagogical philosophy than on the paucity of options for fulfilling Core requirements. Incoming students no longer have to choose—as we seniors, the last of an older generation, had to—their concentration in their freshman year, ostensibly to permit, through more freedom to sample various disciplines, thus a more meaningful choice of study. Departments...
...maybe it was the black woman who sat in the seat across from me, beaming when our eyes met. Or maybe it was the word “Obama” that was shouted and whispered and passed from hand to hand down the subway carriage like the watchword we had all been waiting for. We all seemed to walk a little taller, as though we were the ones who had done something to be proud...