Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This plethora of doorways means that complaints about the same man, each from a different part of the Harvard community, will follow different channels. There will be little coordination in attempts to deal with the problem...
This simultaneous growth of capacities and uncertainties has led to a plethora of possible curricula at a time when the traditional agencies of education, schools and colleges, have been severely criticized by the general public and by some articulate educators. Indeed, during the past year an unprecedented public attention has concentrated upon issues of schooling and the need for improvement of schooling. This widespread concern has been manifest in the reports of various commissions, including the National Commission on Excellence in Education, the Task Force of the Twentieth Century Fund on the Federal Role in Education, and the report...
...agreed this year to appoint a new faculty member to augment our present resources so that we can develop one-year program on technology and education. The intent of the program is to prepare persons to work in school systems and help the schools make intelligent use of the plethora of new hardware and software currently being offered to them. Expertise, particularly intelligent skepticism about the new technologies, is in short supply, and we hope that such a program will both attract good students and be useful to them...
While the long-term visibility of the government seems to be the central question, this year's council will likely not be deterred by the plethora of procedural questions that devoured much of last year. They should expect to benefit from the first council's extensive work on developing the body's internal rules and procedures, considered by many a "necessary evil...
...romance, to spying and spirituality. Extreme privacy plays a prominent role in the most ancient myths. Irascible Zeus, who intended to withhold the knowledge of fire from humans, was outraged when he learned that Prometheus had gone public with it. Zeus was so put off that he assembled a plethora of troubles and sent them down to mortals in the custody of Pandora. Everybody knows the calamity that resulted from the insistence on disclosure of Pandora's cargo...