Word: abreast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nurturing" publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich's Helen Wolff. When Weaver is not translating such writers as Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante and Italo Calvino, he reads vast quantities of American mysteries, which he reviews for the London Financial Times. "Crime books," he maintains, "are very good at keeping you abreast of what people are saying back home...
Junior faculty surveyed split on whether this emphasis was a good thing. On the one hand, says one assistant professor, "The person who is just a good teacher may not appeal to the next generation down the road," while a good researcher is more likely to keep abreast of developments in the field...
Deans and vice presidents say their meetings with the Corporation are always cooperative, never confrontational. Deans receive much latitude to plan the future of their faculties and then present the plans to the Corporation for approval. Usually the Corporation keeps abreast of the planning, and when they consider the move they usually look at it from two perspectives...
Rosovsky and others who know him say that Dreben is aided in his tenure responsibilities by his capacity to keep abreast of a wide range of fields...
University Vice-President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, who oversees labor relations at Harvard, said he was keeping abreast of developments in New Haven because, "we generally look at what employee relations issues exist at all universities...