Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the tenure decisions themselves may or may not have been correct, the fact that a majority of the faculty is angered over how these decisions came about points to poor leadership by Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49. Yet rather than seek to heal the rift, Vorenberg decided to grease the appointment wheels by stacking the tenure committee with conservative stalwarts. The result, not too surprisingly, was to further divide the faculty...
...Israelis initially tried to paint a brighter picture, calling the session "candid and correct." But the rhetoric soon heated up. In Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir declared that Israel had been entitled to raise the emigration issue, since it had a valuable "asset" in the form of 2 million Soviet Jews. In Moscow, Gerasimov retorted, "That is a very arrogant interference in (our) internal affairs. It is like saying that all the Anglo- Saxons in America are the property of the Queen of England...
...caller was David Brockway, staff chief of the Joint Committee on Taxation, relaying bad news: the numbers would not balance. If new projections of slower growth in the economy were correct, the tax increase on business would be only $114 billion, and the cut for individuals would be $131 billion, leaving a $17 billion gap. Packwood and Rostenkowski quickly agreed on how to raise $7 billion, but deadlocked on the remaining $10 billion. "It's a blow to us to have been so close and yet so far," said Rostenkowski as they broke late Thursday night. "He and I almost...
...lived 75 million years before Archaeopteryx. Last week's announcement was based on two fragmentary fossil skeletons found in the arid badlands of western Texas in 1984 by Texas Tech University Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee. They suggest that Protoavis was a contemporary of the earliest dinosaurs. "If the identification is correct," says Yale Paleobiologist John Ostrom, who has examined the crow-size remains, "it has to send us back to the drawing board...
Britain's "Iron Lady" was on the mend last week. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher underwent an hourlong operation on her right hand to correct Dupuytren's contracture, a condition in which her pinky was drawn toward the palm. If left untreated, the ailment can cause deformity and loss of use of the hand...