Word: subjecting
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...book is that Western definitions of freedom placed a greater emphasis on the rights of the individual versus the rights of the group than existed anywhere else in the world, and that this tendency was carried furthest in north-west Europe. The English colonies in the Americas were subject to weaker controls on the part of the imperial government than was the case in other imperial systems. In addition both before and after Columbian contact, north-west Europe had much less exposure to, and intercourse with, non-European peoples than, say, had the Portuguese and the Spanish. The English...
TIME: In your preface you say that it's important for a historian to "put distance between scholarship and the values of the society in which he or she functions." Was it easy for you to write with scholarly detachment about such a subject so heavy with ongoing emotional and political weight...
...decision was complicated here because other human subject research protection is handled by three separate...
...building, formerly subject to rent control, contains 48 one-bedroom apartments and 16 studios, all of which will be set aside for low- and moderate-income residents...
...subject of "missed opportunities" has become one of George W. Bush's favorite lines of attack - a pithy way to hit a two-term incumbent veep when starts bragging about his approach to problems yet unsolved. But in a debate in which Bush mostly held up under fire from the heavily favored Gore, the Texas governor had a few missed opportunities of his own. Not flubs, not slip-ups - they're easy to find on both sides - but chances to turn Gore's eager aggressiveness against him. And maybe even win the thing...