Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department has not made a senior appointment since 1980 and cannot count a scholar of the nation's recent past among its senior ranks. This gap in the coverage of the American history persists even though two of the University's most popular professors--both of them experts in 20th Century American history--came up for tenure review this academic year. Both were rejected...
...mean to suggest that for the last seven years there has not been a single historian worthy tenure, such a defense is unacceptable. In those seven years two full classes of American history concentrators have graduated, none of whom who could receive help on a senior thesis on the 20th Century from a professor "worthy" of tenure. If a "renaissance" of talent in the field does occur, Harvard will have played little part in bringing it about...
...April 20th issue of The Crimson, Bentley Boyd in one of his "Boyd's Eye View" cartoons depicts "new conservativism" as a young man casting a demonic shadow of "new collegiate racism." This cartoon is not only wrong, it is offensive...
...starter Greg Ubert went four innings, giving up just three hits and one run, before giving way to freshman Vic McGrady, who went the next five. The Crimson (7-2 overall, 5-1 EIBL) kept intact its eight year winning streak against the Judges (20-3 overall and ranked 20th nationally...
When the Texas jury first pronounced the verdict against Texaco, the sum was so enormous that it seemed absurd. The award appeared certain to be reduced drastically on appeal. Almost no one believed that Pennzoil, the 200th largest U.S. industrial corporation (1986 sales: $1.78 billion) and the 20th biggest oil company, would be allowed to topple a titan about 18 times its size. But Texaco soon learned that it was dangerously vulnerable to an unusual provision of Texas law. In this case, it required Texaco to post a bond for roughly the full amount of the judgment while the company...