Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response, though, Bowersock has one more trump to play. While the administration cannot force a department to comply with the regulations, they can block additional professor appointments until departments make tangible exertions toward increasing Faculty involvement in tutorials. Bowersock is counting on this "power of persuasion" to give teeth to the reforms. Nonetheless, dangling additional faculty appointments before department heads does not address the central issue. Faculty attitude toward the personalized approach of the tutorial process must change, not the shape or size of the reward offered to departments to lure them back to teaching...
Danehy and his brother John, a Middlesex County Commissioner, owe the city property taxes on a commercial block on Mass. Ave. Danehy told a reporter that "a problem with cash flow" has kept him from paying the taxes...
...opponents also conveniently ignore the ratification process, which would block radical change no matter how far afield a convention's amendments ran. It is true that the 1787 convention tossed its agenda aside and offered an entirely new constitution; the states ratified it then because of the apparent weakness of the old Articles. Today there is no widespread sentiment for drastic constitutional revision, and any attempt to try it would be laughed out of the state legislatures...
...never tell what will happen next in the emotion-charged atmosphere of an Easterns meet--witness Andy Saltzman's upset of Bobby Hackett and Harvard's wild finish in the 800 free relay last night. Or consider the unfortunate fact that Geoff Seelen banged his head on the starting block while pulling himself up for the start of the 100 backstroke after looking like a shoo-in for his first Eastern gold, and consequently had to settle for a silver...
...Faculty members appointed to the committees should try to foster the original goals of the reforms and not use the committees to block increased Faculty participation in tutorials. The reforms will be useless unless the Faculty cooperates...