Word: abandons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just two years after assuming the deanship, Putnam was ready to abandon it to return to teaching and research...
...rarely has to worry where the next dollar is going to come from. As a result, faculty and administrators are insulated from their constituents--Harvard's students. When undergraduates make suggestions, register complaints or demand action, they often listen politely, offer encouraging words and then do little. Occasionally, they abandon any pretense of regard for student cocerns, ignoring requests or quashing them with a vote of the Faculty. More often, they dawdle around until students' four-year Cambridge life spans expire, secure in the knowledge that they will outlast each crop of student activists. As the apocryphal story goes, former...
Diversity is a term bandied about our campus with the reckless abandon that literary scholars toss around "intertextuality" or "gender" as a verb. We chair committees, establish organizations and plan events with the expressed purpose of bringing about greater "diversity" in the student population or the faculty. Diversity in this sense translates into a greater percentage of minority, female or homosexual members in the Harvard community at large...
Frank said his greatest fear during that time was that supporters would abandon him on the premise that "because he's gay he's going to be ineffective...
...once again approaching, and predictably, the ultimatum is becoming less ultimate. Not that China has taken any steps to remedy its dismal record of engaging slave labor and persecuting dissidence; in fact, in the last few months, Jiang Zemin's regime has bullied prominent dissidents with a particularly gleeful abandon. At his Seattle summit with Secretary of State Warren "the Romulan" Christopher, Jiang struck a strident tone, warning the hapless Secretary to lay off China's internal affairs...