Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...myth of the cowboy is like the light, just arriving now, from a star that died long ago. In the actual world, ranchers have trouble hiring cowboys today. Anyone who has ever watched a cowboy interminably working a few strays down a fenceline in the distance on a glum, gray afternoon in West Texas knows why. The real cowboys...
...report also showed that in a five-semester period, professors did miserably in estimating how many books would be needed for their courses. Book sales were estimated correctly (within 20 percent of actual enrollment) 251 times. But professors overestimated the size of their courses 2557 times, while underestimating 535 times...
...fake calendar began with relatively straight-forward listings, which according to Bleich, some students mistook for actual listings. One entry announcing a party at Dean Graham T. Allison's '62 house had some students ordering food a week in advance...
...principal impetus for the new policy was a 1983-84 survey of women at Harvard. The University-sponsored study indicated that more than one-third of the women on campus had felt some kind of sexual harassment--ranging from inappropriate comments and crude jokes to attempted or actual rape...
...fair, Harvard has put forth some real educational efforts, having meetings with teaching fellows and advisors and putting out pamphlets. And perhaps as a result of those efforts and publicity, there will be some decrease in the number of actual problems...