Word: earings
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Similarly encouraging is the Faculty's decision this fall to grant permission for a first-ever women's studies concentration at the College. The Committee on Special Concentrations--which has in the past turned a deaf ear on women's studies proposals--approved an undergraduate concentration on "Gender as a Variable in Social, Scientific and Humanistic Studies." Although unrelated to the push for a joint tenure slot, the committee approval is confirmation that Harvard is willing to treat women's studies as a serious field of study...
...notion of a G.O.P. double-§- cross was first planted in O'Neill's ear by California Congressman Edward Roybal, one of the eleven-member Hispanic caucus. Roybal admits that he first heard it as dinner gossip, but as evidence, he produced a letter from Attorney General William French Smith to the House Judiciary Committee expressing Administration reservations concerning the House version of the bill. Rumors supposedly emanating from the White House also hinted of a presidential veto...
Walters charges that her male co-workers repeatedly harassed her while she worked for B&G. In one incident, a B&G employee allegedly threw a firecracker at her ear. Her suit also contends that the University did not respond to her complaints against the workers...
...understand why it took President Reagan more than 40 years to get a hearing aid [Sept. 19]. For 20 years I have worn one, always making sure that my hair covered my left ear. The problem is not vanity but the fear of not being accepted by others. I hope that the President's example will encourage others to do the same...
When Caspar Weinberger met with Deng Xiaoping last week at Peking's Great Hall, the Chinese leader ex plained that he hears best with his left ear. Would the U.S. Defense Secretary be kind enough to sit on that side? asked Deng. Weinberger obliged, adding felicitously that he hears best with his right ear. "Aha," said Deng with a smile, "we have a good basis for cooperation...