Word: reals
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...administrator here, he leaned back in his chair and said that of course these incidents are regrettable, and freshman year is lonely, but he has received so many letters from Harvard alumni thanking the University for its training. Here at Harvard, they learned how to compete in the real world, where no one would hold their hand...
...have a 3.5 average, and I take academics very seriously, but I was getting stale." "Most kids this age are dying for a way to prove themselves," says Cramer. "The Peace Corps appealed to that. How many other ways are there today for a 20-year-old to exercise real responsibility and show that he's good...
Bakal chronicles some of the well-known charity deceptions that gulled the generous. Baltimore's Pallottine Fathers, a missionary order, collected about $56 million between 1970 and 1975 to feed and clothe the poor but spent much of it on Florida real estate. Nebraska's Boys Town eagerly solicited funds after it built up a net worth of well over $200 million and an income from investments that was easily enough to cover operating expenses...
Douglas had a way of cutting straight through legalisms to tackle practical problems. In decisions like those in the desegregation and one-man, one-vote cases, Douglas and other liberal activists on the Warren court discarded limiting precedents and gave real meaning to the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment. "He did not write for the law school professors," remarked one of his admiring clerks; law professors, in fact, scolded him for sloppiness and sometimes for indifference to law in drafting his opinions. Douglas was also criticized by his own colleague Justice Felix Frankfurter for disregarding...
...actually was, to sense how and why people converged there in ways that would alter the world. In Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Historian Carl E. Schorske gives the city back to itself. The book's seven related essays carefully reconstruct a Vienna of bricks and beliefs, a real place building toward a surreal destiny...