Word: defunction
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...written extensively on the related issue of academic freedom, strongly opposing restrictions on scholars based on their professional or political opinions. The issue first surfaced in 1971-72, Bok's first full academic year as president. At that time, a number of students--mostly members of the now-defunct Students for a Democratic Society--interrupted several of Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein's lectures. They were protesting what they called his racist views because of an article he had written which concluded that a significant measure of intelligence is inherited. When the issue came to a head that...
Judge Jack Weinstein hammered out the settlement at federal district court in Brooklyn, N.Y., shortly before dawn of the day that jury selection was scheduled to begin. The seven corporate defendants-Dow Chemical, Monsanto, Uniroyal. Diamond Shamrock, Hercules, T.H. Agriculture and Nutrition and the now defunct Thompson Chemical-denied any liability for the veterans' illnesses: their position was that Agent Orange had not caused the health problems and that they had merely manufactured the defoliant according to the military's instructions. Nonetheless, the companies agreed to place $180 million into a fund that will be used to compensate...
...issue surfaced in Bok's first year as president. A number of students, mostly members of the now-defunct Students for a Democratic Society, interrupted many of Herrnstein's lectures in 1971-2, protesting an article he had written which concluded that a significant measure of intelligence is inherited...
...grade in his Brooklyn elementary school, was diagnosed a slow learner and never thought about making words his life's work until a high school football injury gave him a long stretch of hospital time for reading. After an uncomfortable journalistic debut as a subeditor on that now defunct "independent" Communist journal The New Masses, Rovere was hired as a writer by William Shawn, then The New Yorker's managing editor. A few years later Shawn and Harold Ross, the magazine's founding editor, assigned him to write about politics as if he were a critic-reviewing...
Both are logical candidates for the post of musical director if Chieti, their birthplace in Abruzzi, revives the defunct town symphony as a tourist attraction. Francesco's desperation for the job is the more comically visible, and his wife (Giuliana De Sio) tries to advance his cause by sleeping with a town councilor. Less obviously needy, Andrea pursues the job with a worldly resignation that contrasts to good dramatic effect with his rival's cookie-tossing eagerness for it. Luciano Odorisio's Dear Maestro is not much to look at, but it is shrewd in its examination...