Word: block
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book, reading period is that strange institution that justifies almost all of Harvard: the stress, the exams-after-winter-break-tradition, the lack of real vacations. It is a block of time with no academic commitments besides those you impose upon yourself. Having successfully conquered the daily bustle of a Harvard semester, you are given a few weeks respite before being sucked into the vortex of exams...
...station has surmounted the problem by literally getting around the other signals. "We put our antenna on top of the tallest building in Cambridge," he says. "There aren't many stations that can block...
Formal incentive plans, the most fiscally aggressive of all legal plans, are block bonus payments--often a multiple of a professor's salary--dispersed at retirement. There is a minimum eligibility age, and the bonus decreases as the faculty member ages...
...logic behind the plan is that older faculty members, seeing that they will have to retire eventually, will see an incentive to leave early: Taking a block of money with them. The saved salary pays for the bonus if the chair is kept open for a time or if a junior faculty member is hired in place of the senior professor...
Each House Committee this year received a $500 block grant from the council to do with as they wish. However, even this small amount of funding is not guaranteed because of the council's reluctance to recognize the will of the student body as expressed in December's referendum...