Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...influence research choices by convincing a professor to pursue a lucrative field instead of working on more esoteric subjects. Professors may withhold the publication of their findings until they reach the patenting stage--as happened several times last year in the field of superconductors--even refusing to informally discuss their research with their colleagues. Consulting or using university facilities for commercial research may divert faculty time from research and teaching duties...
...page document plunged Austria's fragile coalition government into crisis. Amid renewed calls for the President's resignation, the pro-Waldheim People's Party reportedly met with Chancellor Franz Vranitzky's Socialists to discuss how to get Waldheim to step down. Karl Gruber, a former Foreign Minister and longtime Waldheim friend, ignited a fire storm of criticism by charging that the six-member historians' panel was filled with Waldheim's "enemies." He said one member was a Socialist "and the others are of Jewish descent." Vranitzky immediately sent apologetic telegrams to the commission, and a People's Party official called...
...attorney quoted the Nicaraguan president as saying he would be willing to talk to Obando y Bravo about his proposal but did not want his negotiators to discuss it at the contra talks...
BUTTING HEADS Last week, students in Professor Stephan Thernstrom's Core class, Historical Studies A-25, "The Peopling of America," said the professor displayed racial insensitivity in the course. Two students who took the course discuss the complaint...
...battle raged in the council over the appropriateness of accepting the Corporation's offer. Several members, including former Chairman Brian C. Offutt' '87, called the meeting a golden opportunity to discuss many matters with the Corporation, in addition to divestment and the possibility of an open meeting...