Word: approached
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Patterson and Sociology Head Tutor James A. Davis argued that Social Studies studied classical Western social theorists in a vacuum, without regard for contemporary issues. At the same time, some Social Studies affiliates defended their approach against what they saw as an overly quantitative emphasis in recent Sociology appointments...
...There are intellectual differences," Patterson says. "It's not an attack on teaching social thought but on their approach...
...federal government has encouraged this free-market approach to medicine, Relman said. In 1975, the Supreme Court declared antitrust laws applicable to the medical profession, encouraging competition among physicians, he said...
...tries to put the best face on an unpopular regime. Recent decisions to relax the government's two-year-old economic austerity program, lift martial law in Beijing and the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and tone down the ideological decibel level represent a modest victory for the pragmatic approach of retired patriarch Deng Xiaoping over a clutch of veteran hard- liners. Yet Deng, 85, remains locked in a paralyzing succession struggle that precludes any but the most cosmetic policy changes in the near future. "What we are seeing is the classic politics of the end of an era," says...
Iliescu's background as a former senior Communist Party official failed to outweigh the personal popularity he has won since the Front came to power last December. Working in his favor were generous food imports, an end to miserly controls over heat and light, and a go-slow approach to economic reform that has so far avoided layoffs and higher prices. The relative obscurity of his opposition rivals and their lack of support among rural and industrial workers also helped. Iliescu has said he will model Romania's economy on that of Sweden, while retaining government control of heavy industry...