Word: bents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fair, the staff position does concede that student action is also necessary to remedy the problems inherent in diversity, but this concession is offered as a mere caveat before proceeding to the "real" solution. The bent of the article is revealed not only in what it discusses (how the administration can make everything better) but also in what it leaves out (any serious treatment of alternative solutions...
American officials view China's six-month-old copyright law as weak and have been pushing for tougher compliance in talks that went nowhere. With Congress apparently bent on enacting its own restrictions, the Administration will now move to recoup losses from Beijing's intellectual poaching by imposing tariffs on such Chinese goods as beer, watches and athletic shoes...
...politics, its certainties begin to blur. One of the primary fears of the separationists is that if government gets too involved with religion, the result will resemble the bloodless, lifeless state-backed churches in Europe. Many of the supporters of the church-state wall fear that politicians, bent on compromise more than conversion, would try to invent some inoffensive brand of faith -- the creche encircled by reindeer hauling Santa's sleigh. "What you are tending to see is a new secular state religion," says Lee Boothby, a Seventh-day Adventist who is general counsel with Americans United for Separation...
...probably the most suppressed newspaper in America," says Dan Rodden, whose Caleb Campaign publishes Issues and Answers. "In the schools today there is definitely a religious and philosophical bent that is anti- Christian. Little children, by the time they're in second grade, know that God is illegal." The issue of prayer in the classroom arouses even greater passions. If public schools allow teachers to lead students in prayer, it looks very much like an endorsement of religion, and it is hard to imagine that a child would not feel pressured into joining in. Particularly in deeply religious communities, atheist...
...common fear of the U.S.S.R. Now the Yugoslavs are free to fight among themselves, avenging old wrongs and seeking independence from -- or domination over -- one another. With Marx and even Tito in disrepute, the strongmen in Belgrade are exposed for what most of them have always been: Serbian imperialists, bent on maintaining control not only over their republic but over the others as well -- especially Croatia, where there is a large Serbian population...