Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...image of the malcontent assistant professor who hasn't a shot in the world at tenure. Is the system fair? And what can Harvard do to make junior faculty, who bear such a large portion of the teaching load here, feel more comfortable? Harvard can also take steps to attract even better junior faculty in the first place. Such a move would help to raise the low number of internal promotions that survive Harvard's tenure process--a process that has been described as tantamount to the canonization of a saint...
...bidding war with schools like Harvard by offering large salaries and research benefits to "star" professors. He says a principal reason for the Campaign is to insure that Harvard will be able to compete financially in such a market and be able to maintain the University's prestige to attract top-flight faculty...
...University officials, the Black activists explored the idea of a new committee to monitor Harvard's efforts to hire Black faculty and staff. Their leg-work came to fruition this spring when Bok agreed to the creation of an ad hoc group to recommend new ways to better recruit, attract and hold on to Black faculty and administrators...
...There's no denying there's a certain look to Paul's shows, a sort of homosexual, mylar, glitzy look," says Peter Howard '84, a former HRDC board member who has acted for both directors. "It's the old paradox of trying on the one hand to attract an audience, to make them want to come back to the theater, and at the same time to threaten them and change their lives. Paul tends to be more confrontational...
ARMS began to attract attention when interest rates started rising in the late 1970s. A year ago, an increasing number of home buyers viewed the ARM as the niftiest invention since aluminum siding. In November 1982, Houstonites Sheila and Bert Christensen would have been unable to afford their four-bedroom house at the daunting 15% going rate for a conventional mortgage. But with an ARM, the computer repairman and his wife paid an initial rate of just 11⅞% on their $85,000 home. Now they wish they had never heard of ARMS. Last January their lender boosted the rate...