Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solve their pollution problems. Regulation of their driving habits or the emissions of their cars from above have been proven futile. Citizens themselves will have to decide how to solve the problem, and they will have to pay for the solution they choose. Denver residents are learning this difficult lesson now. Residents of other cities should be paying attention...
Singer's subject is nothing less than the birth pangs of civilization, as seen through the eyes of an intelligent but innocent victim of progress. And the writing -- terse, colloquial, evocative -- makes this ambitious history lesson seem an enchanting evening around a fireside...
Thompson learned a lesson about hard work. "We believe that if we work hard we'll get what we want, but that's not always true," Thompson says...
...Allende is unwilling to have faith in the government, or any government, then centering on the individual triumphs of Eva would impart an important, if not entirely orginal, lesson: that fate lies ultimately in each person's hands. But if we are to believe that hope lies in a democratic government taking power, then why all the fuss about Eva, and why such a conscious effort by Allende to avoid discussing politics directly...
...right from the start of the Freedom Trail, it is the legacy of the next generation--the Revolutionary generation--which dominates the carefully orchestrated history lesson. From the Old South Church where the Boston Tea Party was planned to Ben Franklin's house and Breed's Hill battleground, it is the story of the War of Independence which the Freedom Trail tells...