Word: note
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...commitment to change. Like many Afrikaners, he gets angry when the outside world criticizes South Africa for not doing enough rather than acknowledging what it has done. "Anyone who says that we are just looking for another way in which to entrench white domination has either not taken note of what has been said and what is happening or is willfully distorting the truth," he says. "On the one hand, they put up stumbling blocks that make it difficult for us to meet the expectations. On the other hand, they test us against expectations we never intended to raise...
Genero Arriagada Herrera, vice president of Chile's National Christian Democratic Party, sounded a lone note of political caution as he extolled the long struggle of the opposition forces that began the move to democracy in Chile...
...more serious note, Broh said that the main reason for keeping with the traditional calender is that Princeton dorms are not air-conditioned. He said that if Princeton had early exams, the year would have to begin in the dog days of August, making for a most uncomfortable study environment...
Professors cite numerous reasons for their decisions to use their books for their classes. Some say they do it because students learn more when the text they read echoes and expands on the material covered in lecture. Others note that the `standard' texts for many academic disciplines are written by star scholars who teach at Harvard...
...Benjamin Franklin Taylor caught both the metaphysics and, unintentionally, the comedy when he wrote this rhapsody to the phone: "The far is near. Our feeblest whispers fly/ Where cannon falter, thunders faint and die./ Your little song the telephone can float/ As free of fetters as a bluebird's note...