Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...record badly needs to be set straight about sociology in Britain. British academic life has been assaulted--tenure abolished completely for every new appointment hereafter, to give a single example--over the last decade, and there has been in consequence a steady brain drain...
Princeton dominated the tourney, never dropping a game. The competition was set up with two pools of four teams playing round-robin games...
When Dr. Stanley Hellerstein's two-year-old granddaughter Toba came to visit him in Kansas City last summer, his household garbage doubled. The reason: Toba's disposable diapers. That set Hellerstein, the chief kidney specialist at Children's Mercy Hospital, thinking about the 300,000 disposable diapers the hospital was using every year. At Hellerstein's urging, the hospital now swaddles its babies in cloth diapers that are provided by Kansas City's General Diaper Service...
Traditionalists increasingly distinguish between a "multiracial" society, which they say would be fine, and a "multicultural" society, which they deplore. They argue that every society needs a universally accepted set of values and that new arrivals should therefore be pressured to conform to the mentality on which U.S. prosperity and freedom were built. Says Allan Bloom, author of the best-selling The Closing of the American Mind: "Obviously, the future of America can't be sustained if people keep only to their own ways and remain perpetual outsiders. The society has got to turn them into Americans. There are natural...
Born Again--Venerable President Derek C. Bok apparently was less than thrilled about his 60th birthday two weeks ago. In fact, he told a Crimson reporter he felt "awful." But never one for self-pity, the new sextagenarian set out to reclaim some of his lost youth over Spring Break--in Bermuda. Bok told the Crimson he had a blast on his tropical vacation, and especially enjoyed riding mopeds with his daughter...