Word: basic
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...Educational Application of Brain Hemisphere Research at California State University, Long Beach. Edwards, the author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (copies sold: 1.4 million), has limbered the lobes of executives at companies as varied as IBM and Patagonia by helping them learn the basic perceptual skills required for drawing. Says Robert Kelley, adjunct professor of business administration at Carnegie-Mellon University: "The vital question American businesses face is to determine if they are going to require creativity on a regular basis. If so, they need talent in place, and no one knows how to do this...
...soon as Sharis hit the water, his star began to rise. The lanky 6-ft., 4-in. immediately found the sport to his linking. Under the guidance of Harvard freshman Coach Ted Washburn, Sharis picked up the basic technique quickly enough to sit in the five-seat of the first freshman boat that spring--the only novice oarsman in the boat...
...paradox is that the 1990s pose a challenge our predecessors would have eagerly embraced. We graduate into a world that sees no war on the horizon, is buoyed by a long economic expansion and is equipped with the resources to bring about basic social and political change. We are the beneficiaries of a victory in an ideological war we did not have to physically fight, confronting a time of profound--but peaceful--competition internationally and in our own troubled society...
Wilson also urged seniors to consider civic service a responsibility. "We cannot assume that the basic function of civic society will be provided by others," Wilson said...
Israeli authorities have justified their actions as a response to security concerns, claiming that educational institutions were centers of rebellion against the occupation. The closure of schools, however, has not inhibited organizing for the uprising, but rather has angered students who are deprived of their basic right to education. Furthmore, Shmuel Goren, a senior official of the Israeli occupation, has admitted that where the reopening of schools has been permitted there has been no increase in violence...