Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...College has its own bureaucratic channels to complement the Faculty's. At the top of this flow-chart is John B. Fox, Jr. '59, dean of the College. A lot of students contend that they understand less about what Fox does than they do about Bok or Rosovsky, who are even more removed from College life. This is understandable because Fox has no responsibility for curriculum issues and only supervises the administration of the College with his team of assistant deans. But don't be mistaken. Fox affects student's lives with activities ranging from presiding over the Administrative Board...
...million overhaul of the stadium which will actually leave the football fortress unchanged architecturally. The traditional and incomparably uncomfortable concrete seats have all been removed, but they are being replaced rapidly by new and equally rock-hard concrete. In addition, new steel beams and freshly painted seat numbers will complement the work now being done by mammoth cranes, which dangle the cement tonnage far above the field and then gently drop each segment into place...
...Carlos beachhead were already ashore at Fitzroy, but they had not yet been set up on hillsides overlooking the estuary. Although both ships would have been unloaded in another hour or so, at the time of the attack the Sir Galahad was still packed with most of its full complement of 68 crewmen and, according to some accounts, as many as 500 troops waiting to go ashore. Those on board had no time at all to react; those on land could only watch helplessly as the bombs fell on the two vessels...
Fiorina and the three sociologists--if they accept Harvard's offer--will hardly be the first scholars in their departments to log onto the computer. Fiorina would join a sizable complement of quantitative scholars in the Government Department, including Douglas A. Hibbs, Robert D. Putnam, and Sidney Verba, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education. James A. Davis, the chairman of the Sociology Department who calls himself a "hardcore" quantitative scholar, is one of a handful of number pushers in Sociology...
...Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism) and Daniel Bell (The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism) have contended that these elements are often in conflict, and that a liberal society must balance the competing forces of democracy, economic freedom and social justice. Not so, answers Novak. Capitalism and democracy complement one another. They are inevitable outgrowths of the same moral tradition, and it is no accident that they tend to go hand in hand in the real world. He writes: "Political democracy is compatible in practice only with a market economy. In turn, both systems nourish and are best nourished...