Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State of the Union address last week Reagan pledged to expand funding for Engineering Research Center that bring together members of industry and academia, such as one at Harvard studying robotics. The Administration also strongly supports research and development programs in its budget for fiscal year 1988 that was submitted last month...
Riesman, who retired in 1980, believes that if forced retirement were abolished, universities would be unable to attract the younger generation into a career of academia...
Riesman predicted that "all of academia is likely to suffer" if the mandatory age were abolished. He says that while Harvard may suffer less, small liberal arts colleges will face a tougher time because they tend to have more tenured faculty...
...confused as she moved from one meeting to another. Though few knew it at the time, she was quietly undergoing a crash course in the art and issues of presidential campaigning under the tutelage of her brother Jose (Peping) and a selected group of advisers from business and academia...
...they become acculturated, many discover they have lost contact with their past, and now feel cut off from their old communities. Their friends and family at home often cannot understand the students' new lives. Students from non-college backgrounds may be made outcasts by their encounters with academia...