Word: quasi
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Soviets, sometimes troubling ways, guided by their own historic and cultural traditions. Rumania, although it has one of the East bloc's most repressive regimes, has maintained a boldly independent foreign policy. Hungary, while hewing to the Soviet line on international affairs, is experimenting with quasi-capitalist practices in its socialist economy...
Today, animals and quasi-animals remain a child's earliest modes of transportation to the province of fantasy. Sesame Street, whose pervasive commercialism makes Disney's appear dwarfish, provides a world of tactile monsters; Sendak's night creatures and Arnold Lobel's Homeric tales of friendship between Frog and Toad, Dr. Seuss's Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Ever, and the omnipresent Snoopy and Woodstock are leaders in a procession that could populate a fleet of arks. Still, if anything appears with a tail or a mane, a small human...
...English and a member of the Committee of Fifteen, was hesitant about discussing his past association with that disciplinary body: "Ah, yes, I guess. What does CRR stand for again?" At the time, Rosenblatt says he remembers thinking that the University should not have to resort to such a quasi-legal, formalized process...
Rent board members were unavailable for comment yesterday, but some have said in the past they view the body as more of an impartial, quasi-judicial agency designed more to decide cases brought before it than to actively protect tenants...
...Public Interest (circ. 13,500). Edited by Irving Kristol, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Na than Glazer, this quasi-academic quarterly has since 1965 sought to influence legislation in Washington. To do so, Public Interest tailors its content to provide solid reference materials for congressional staff members. The winter issue, for instance, examines family policy, Social Security and crime in public schools...