Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grading, Content Of Ec 10 Changed...
...learning the material over passing the tests, it is also true that with the more difficult tests of this year, the two issues are not so easily separable as in the past. It may be possible that better tests, perhaps including essay questions, and some revisions to the current content will result in a stronger focus on learning the material...
Throughout these ugly years, though, the majority of Germans seemed fairly content with their New Order. "The Nazi terror in the early years affected the lives of relatively few Germans," recalled William Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, who went to report on Germany in 1934, "and a newly arrived observer was somewhat surprised to see that the people of this country did not seem to feel that they were being cowed and held down by an unscrupulous and brutal dictatorship. On the contrary, they supported it with genuine enthusiasm. Somehow it imbued them with...
...court ruled that even if Masson did not say those words, Malcolm's inventions were permissible because they did not "alter the substantive content" of what he actually said, or were a "rational interpretation" of his comments. Judge Alex Kozinski fiercely dissented: "While courts have a grave responsibility under the First Amendment to safeguard freedom of the press, the right to deliberately alter quotations is not, in my view, a concomitant of a free press...
...although even the novel's end is colored in Barker's terms, Bernays does not allow him to satisfy all of his desires. But the teacher learns little from his lesson--Barker is content to remain a slime, barely trying to prove himself otherwise...