Word: developing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Overseer Bernadine P. Healy, Bokdiscussed Harvard's role in helping nascentdemocracies develop their economic and politicalleadership, a subject he had raised at the lastmeeting in reference to Eastern Europe...
...also thinking of what we could do after Viet Nam. It was essential to have a new relationship with the Russians, have a new relationship with the Chinese, and I felt that at that time, early on, it would have made it difficult, almost impossible, to develop that new relationship had we declared war. It would have broken it off. In retrospect, I don't think so. In retrospect, I think we could have done it. And it may have been a mistake of judgment, but at the time, that's the reason I didn...
...outgrow casual attitudes toward brutality is wrong. Count on it: if you saturate young minds with materials showing that human beings are fit subjects for debasement or dismembering, the result will be desensitization to everything that should produce revulsion or resistance. The first aim of education is to develop respect for life, just as the highest expression of civilization is the supreme tenderness that people are strong enough to feel and manifest toward one another. If society is breaking down, as it too often appears to be, it is not because we lack the brainpower to meet its demands...
...white killer has been sentenced to death for the murder of any black victim, while 33 blacks have been executed for killing whites. Opponents of Kennedy's amendment, led by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, say it would outlaw the death penalty altogether, since it would force prosecutors to develop race-based evidence to prove they were not discriminating. "This would allow vicious killers to get off by talking about race," says Thurmond...
...officio member, the principal -- were put in charge of each of Chicago's 541 public schools. The aim was to shift authority from the city's bloated board of education to local neighborhoods. But giving parents the power to hire and fire principals, approve budgets and develop long-range plans for improving student performance has so far proved to be more of a headache than a panacea for the nation's third largest school district...