Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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When a faculty member is hired, it can mean an eight-year budget committment for junior professors or a 40-year commitment for senior faculty. Peterson says that this makes it difficult to make hiring decisions based on unpredictable and often-shifting undergraduate trends...
...Earth Day is going to be anything more than a self-indulgent party/media event, every participant must consider its meaning on a personal level. If partying on the Charles will help you think about the sacrifices you are willing to make for the environment, then by all means go party. But the big party on the Charles won't save the environment. Instead of partying all day, try recycling your newspapers, taking shorter showers or going without paper cups in the dining hall...
...mother always made fun of me for sitting around watching baseball players stand around on TV. For caring whether a group of 25 illiterate, greedy strangers playing would make an illiterate, greedy owner a richer man. For memorizing Bob Apodaca's lifetime E.R.A. For refusing even to tape the games and watch them without commercials...
AMERICANS have traditionally been willing to do anything to protect the environment--anything, that is, that does not involve the slightest inconvenience to themselves. Even after Earth Week is over, it is important to remember that the daily choices we make as consumers and citizens can help or hinder efforts to bequeath a habitable planet to our children...
Earth week is a time to consider the small, individual sacrifices that we can make to sustain and improve the quality of life on our planet. Every Day is Earth Day, which bills itself as "the official New England Earth Day 1990 action guide," is chock full of such suggestions. And though some of them--such as using cloth diapers and not eating meat--are of questionable value, the importance of the idea of individual sacrifice cannot be overstated...