Word: basic
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...imperialism? Symbols deeply meaningful to one group can be a matter of indifference to another. ! Says University of Wisconsin chancellor Donna Shalala: "My grandparents came from Lebanon. I don't identify with the Pilgrims on a personal level." Christopher Jencks, professor of sociology at Northwestern, asks, "Is anything more basic about turkeys and Pilgrims than about Martin Luther King and Selma? To me, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other, if children understand what it's like to be a dissident minority. Because the civil rights struggle is closer chronologically, it's likelier...
...time when we can least afford this waste and misdirection of our best undergraduate and academic talent. The nation is going through a painful structural transition, both externally, in its position in the world, and int ernally, in the changes in its industrial base, its modes of organization, its basic social institutions and its dominant values. This is reflected not only in the poverty of our political culture, but in the seemingly intractable social problems that beset the nation--the problems of chronic poverty, crime, racism, inequality, gender discrimination, an aging population, inadequate public health, and environmental deterioration...
Although Law School Dean Robert C. Clark is not expected to organize a search committee for the post for several years, Nichols said the chair most likely would be in a "basic area," such as tax, constitutional or criminal...
...basic argument was that divestmentwon't have any effect on South Africa and all thatwill happen is that Harvard will lose money,"Jeffrey said. "There wasn't enough moraljustification for selling the stocks in thecompany that Harvard does invest...
...country; he's a patriot. His purpose is not to abandon communism but to save it. But he also has another facet, which at times overrides the other two, that he is a great, pragmatic politician. And as a pragmatic politician, he sometimes will overrule even his basic communist instincts, or even his national instincts, in the event that his political survival requires...