Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NATO summit was simple. His new proposal on conventional forces restored a degree of credibility and seriousness to the American conduct of arms control that has been missing for a decade -- and that is a crucial ingredient in the leadership of the Western alliance, especially in the age of Gorbachev...
...heads a group that analyzes rating methods for the networks, is concerned that the sight of a camera on top of their TVs might make people self-conscious, affecting their viewing habits and skewing the results. And some would be sure to see in the new device a computer-age version of Big Brother's telescreen -- the two-way television that monitored the citizenry in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four...
...half the authorized strength because of layoffs. Its newest patrol car is nearly five years old. Many cars no longer have functioning two-way radios for lack of repair funds, and some cops have had to buy their own. There is no money to hire recruits, and the average age of the force is up to a doddering 46 1/2 years. "We just don't have the money and the personnel to keep the peace," sighs Inspector Lawrence Brewer, a veteran of nearly 22 years in the department. "There are guys literally jumping on our car hoods to sell...
Wilson: It's important, I think, to remember that Harvard's low rate is linked to its unusual way of tenuring faculty...The number of women who received Ph.Ds in the 1970s and 1960s was not high, and people who are tenured are senior in age. It takes a while for that pool to go through the system. I will be delighted when the workforce in academia is more evenly distributed. I think it will be beneficial for students and certainly beneficial for scholarship in general. I'm not knowledgeable enough about Harvard to know if it is an unusual...
...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...