Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked her to remain as chairman of the department, but I wanted Professor Ferguson to chair the executive committee and that is what she didn't want. She felt a dual authority structure was confusing," he notes...
...have rows upon rows of people working in the same room. You have an entity within a department. But we've got to come up with policies to counter the feeling of just being a cog," Cantor says. One of his policies was to give a Harvard chair to employees celebrating their 25th year at Harvard. About 100 people get that chair every year, Cantor says, adding, "It's a neat ceremony...
...working for academia. "Most feel working in an educational environment is more attractive, more relaxed, open and informal than industry," Wickenden says. Cantor points out that once employees have stayed at Harvard more than three years, "the turnover rate is almost invisible." Who knows, maybe they want that Harvard chair...
...white pumps. But these were not an ordinary pair of black and white pumps; both were left feet, one had a right angle turn with separate compartments that pointed the toes in impossible directions. The other shoe was six inches long and was curved inward like a rocking chair with a vise and razor blades to hold the foot in place...
Common explanations offered by arm chair geneticists included "watching too much television," "studying too hard," and "smoking too much dope." But Dougherty said the presence of toxic chemicals in the environment--not in rolling paper--was part of the reason for the decline...