Word: broads
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...council came close to approving a new conflicts-of-interest statement put forth by the Committee on Research Policy (CRP) late last spring, only to decide after four meetings that the CRP proposal was vaguely worded. On the other hand, the council affirmed the CRP recommendations for broad changes in University policy, including the formation of a committee that would deal with professors with potential conflicts. The CRP also pushed for recognition of "conflicts of commitment" in addition to what Paul C. Martin, dean of the Division of Applied Sciences, calls "the old-fashioned financial conflicts of interest...
...that sounds like an awfully broad agenda, it's because Verba intends it to be. "Rather than looking at things on a nickle and dime basis," he says, he will look at "the whole structure of [academic] rules to see which ones are inexplicable or inconsistent." Verba says the "full package of proposals" he will eventually present will likely address topics such as honors requirements, make-up exams, regulations for adding and dropping courses, and other issues that turn up in the Handbook of College Rules...
Formally, The French Lieutenant's Woman may be remarkable for its shuffling of tenses and tensions; it is also a film of meticulous attention to the details of the 1860s and today. But its potential appeal for the broad audience rests on the chemistry of its cast-on the attractive night music played in this quartet for two voices: Sarah-Anna and Charles-Mike...
...approach is part of a broad strategy of combatting Communist, specifically Cuban, influence in a region where, says the Venezuelan foreign ministry's Leopoldo Castillo, "during most of the 1960s and 1970s virtually all social change was linked to Havana's influence." Venezuela and Cuba have seldom been easy with each other in recent decades; their relationship turned positively chilly last year after Cuban police shot at refugees seeking political asylum inside the Venezuelan embassy in Havana. Caracas withdrew its ambassador in protest...
...from Exeter. "I felt that I had not got anywhere," he says. In fact, he had come to the right place. The English faculty included a young Southern novelist named John Yount (Wolf at the Door, The Trapper's Last Shot), who told the restless student with the broad shoulders and burning brown eyes what he wanted to hear. "It was so simple," Irving remembers. " Yount was the first person to point out to me that anything I did except writing was going to be vaguely unsatisfying...