Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hooker said he thinks that, if left to their own devices, the Sandinistas can unite Nicaragua and "enrich our national identify" by allowing each Nicaraguan tribe economic and political autonomy...
...subject is erroneous, corrective information may not sink in when conveyed in the less vivid form of print. The TV networks are plainly within their constitutional rights to make docudramas, and to express whatever point of view they wish. Their output may add to public knowledge and enrich public debate. But given what misimpressions of history a docudrama may also leave, the furor in Atlanta should provide an impetus for overdue self-restraint. In a thoughtful, democratic society, nothing is more sacred and vital than the ability to agree on, and face, the facts, whatever they may be. For networks...
...author's alma maters), and consider the Rockefellers, who came into their billions less than a century ago, slightly parvenu. This time around, Auchincloss is concerned with the female of that rare and resplendent species: twelve women who met once a month, from 1908 to 1972, to enrich themselves still further by discussing a book. The narrator, Christopher Gates, is the decorator son of one of the dozen in the Book Class. He believes that they and their peers had a remarkable and unrecorded influence on New York, and hence America, in the days before women "got sidetracked...
...Mario Cuomo offer up 400 exhaustive and, at times, exhausting pages chronicling his ascension to the governorship of New York State? Political books are rarely written merely to enrich the intellectual content of bourgeois existence. Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) did not churn out A New Democracy because he fancied himself a renaissance man, nor did Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) pen a how-to nuke freeze guide because he could only express his heartfelt convictions in mass market soft-cover...
...Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a course on manufacturing management is required for an M.B.A., and other courses are offered in robotics and manufacturing strategy. In the belief that dirty hands can enrich minds, students venture to shop floors in the Pittsburgh area and serve as field consultants. A total of 15% of Carnegie-Mellon's 1984 business graduates plan to go into manufacturing, vs. 1% three years ago. The university will soon offer a new degree, a variation of a master's in engineering, says Associate Dean Robert Atkin. It will be equivalent to an M.B.A...