Word: disappearance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This struggle does not disappear. Every two years, Cambridge holds an election that potentially could reverse its gains. The loss of a single seat on the nine-member body could negate any accomplishments. Students registered to vote in Cambridge must go to the polls again today to reaffirm the commitment to economic and social inequality...
Vellucci declined to comment on which of the candidates had advertised in the Express, but added. "It's is hard to raise money to pay for that advertising, and then to have it disappear from under your nose is what we call a low blow in politics, and it has to be illegal...
...harassment, many women (as well as a substantial number of men) point repeatedly to the more fundamental problem of sexism on campus. One women junior faculty member writes, "I think [if] Harvard could be less of a male club with all those attitudes and values my own annoyances would disappear." A tenured woman professor remarks on the survey, "Only males sent this out; the university harasses females by having only males in authority to sign the cover letter...
...cutting prose and a cranky confidence make Fussell a formidable exploiter of status anxiety. Imagine how many college stickers will quietly disappear from the family cars after uneasy readers learn that a seemingly harmless practice is an advertisement of insecurity and prestige by association. The news that better sorts wear only navy blue and gray should seal the musty fate of millions of brown suits, and dinner-party hostesses may never get another compliment after the pronouncement that upper classes find praise rude, "possessions there being of course beautiful, expensive and impressive, without question...
While Dziech and Weiner do not advocate publicizing individual cases in The Lecherous Professor, they claim that sexual harassment must be seen as a public, rather than private issue. Sexual harassment will not disappear, they argue, until it is discussed and addressed as a fundamental academic concern...