Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goldhaber, whose record term at Harvard also makes him the longest serving dental school dean in the country, announced this summer that he will retire when he reaches 66, the customary retirement age for Harvard deans...
...Between 1977 and 1987, the percentage of professors under the age of 40 in the arts and sciences dropped from 42 percent to 22 percent...
...Even if the faculty retirement rate were cut in half--due to professors staying on past the customary departure age--demand for new faculty members to replace those leaving would only drop 2 percent...
...period tagged a decade of greed, which followed a "me generation" and a so-called age of permissiveness, the return of concern is encouraging. And, 25 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, and 20 years after such politics culminated in students taking over University Hall, the tumult was refreshing...
...philosophical equivalent of that cheerful banality "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." Fukuyama is not really addressing the subject of history at all. He is looking through the wrong end of the telescope at current events, at a period barely twice his age (he is 36). Whether it is dead, dying or merely having a bad decade, Communism, in the sense that Fukuyama and almost everyone else thinks about it, has been around for only 70-odd years. There were plenty of predatory tyrannies before Lenin arrived at the Finland Station, and there will...