Word: assignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Club forum, Dr. Joseph Fletcher, professor of Medicine and author of the book "Situation Ethics: The New Morality," said the abortion issue is an ethical determination of when "personhood" begins. "Everyone agrees that life begins at conception--but the issue is when should we assign the rights and status of a person to the fetus," he said...
...master tends to assign his novels a topic. In The Mackerel Plaza it was the state of religion in the U.S. I Hear America Swinging concerned the manner and mores of the newly liberated male; Comfort Me With Apples chose the form of parody for a series of hilarious lectures on modern literature. Here, sexual harassment is the ordure of the day. Voluptuous, innocent Daisy Dobbin, an investigative reporter, is sent undercover into New York offices to collect evidence for her feminist editor Bobsy Diesel. But it is the leathery Bobsy who does the harassing, vigorously attempting to seduce Daisy...
...consulting probably share Cantley's sentiments, and concerned scholars envision numerous conflicts of commitment resulting from such corporate loyalties. A faculty consultant whose firm is sinking in a sea of competition might shirk his academic responsibilities in order to spend more time in his industrial lab. The professor might assign his seniors and graduate students theses relating to his business rather than University research. More likely, such consulting relationships would intensify competition between labs whose heads are affiliated with different firms...
...policy does not assign more weight to any particular criterion, but states that if a tenure candidate falls short of excellence in an area the candidate should demonstrate "excellence in one activity and substantial strength in the other...
...system, the basic axiom of selectivity. Compared with all previous reformers, this year's freshman class could usher in the millennium immediately by unanimously signing a petition which would declare they will not join a club unless Bicker is abolished and the university administration is given unqualified authority to assign sophomores to the various clubs by applying the distribution principle to the applications submitted, just as is one in the case of the Houses and the "colleges" at Harvard and Yale...