Word: decentering
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...role in making sure its water supply is safe, starting by testing to see whether THMs are down to permissible levels. With the laboratory facilities already existing on campus, this task should not be an excessive burden. The city has demonstrated that it cannot be relied upon to provide decent water. Harvard must keep the pressure on Cambridge to maintain water quality, as demanded by a petition being circulated by Laurie R. Belin...
...have such people anymore at the universities, and the reason is tenure. When the time comes to grant it nowadays, the radicals get screened out. That's its principal function. It's a very good system, really--keeps academic life at a decent level of tranquility...
...kind of walked right into it," Biland said. "It probably would have been a decent match but I had a head and arm and just tossed...
Because of an auto-production glut and a consumer hunger for bargains, the Big Three have become dependent on incentives to move merchandise. Result: even when car sales are decent, profit margins are thin. General Motors said it gave up $5 billion in incentives in 1989, or $900 for every vehicle it sold. Ford pegged its incentives at $1,000 per vehicle, Chrysler at $1,200. As part of its current restructuring, Chrysler last week announced the $825 million sale of its aircraft subsidiary, Gulfstream Aerospace, to a management-led group...
...organizations to become more cautious. During the latest New York City mayoral race, and for the first time in memory, the New York Times did not poll prior to Election Day. Adam Clymer, who at the time was the paper's polling specialist, explained that there was "simply no decent track record." No one could predict with confidence exactly which and how many of New York's registered voters would actually go to the polls. Why, then, did the Times report on polls carried by others? "These polls were part of the equation," says Clymer. "People were talking about them...