Word: basic
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...concern for the welfare and living standards of Harvard’s service workers. This concern should lead him not only to adopt the committee’s recommendations, but also to adopt a policy of paying wages that allow employees living in the Boston area to afford the basic necessities of life...
...Capra had an eye for basic American themes that keep reformulating themselves from one generation to another. You watch It Happened One Night with a sense that it's a contemporary story. Play a game: set down the Peter Warne character and the King Westley character as American archetypes and relocate them in the present. Which of them, would you judge, emerges triumphant...
...Bush Administration has argued that shifting this funding from the Smithsonian to the National Science Foundation would foster a more competitive review process. But the scientists who work at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center already compete for funding for their projects; the proposed change would routinely place the basic infrastructure of the observatory in jeopardy...
...five years ago, in one of my rare flashes of parental insight, I decided that the most opportune time to teach this basic courtesy is while the tinsel is hot. To the horror of my children, I announced that henceforth every gift received will be an occasion for a thank-you note written immediately, on the spot. I have explained to my kids how I have reacted to not hearing from that little boy--how it made me feel unappreciated and unmotivated to repeat the process next year...
Another part of this story is that we Americans love it when there's a President whom many people disdained, who some people thought lacked any great qualities of leadership, and then suddenly the moment comes and he meets it and surprises us. It goes to the most basic American ideal, which is that to be a great President you don't have to be a bookish scholar, and you don't have to embody everything you might find in a civics book, but rather that the most important attributes are instinct and judgment, principles and values...