Word: ending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholars with impeccable credentials and outstanding reputations. The tenure system insures it. And that, in itself, is a problem....the system discriminates against young academics; it favors the "big name" over youthful vigor and potential...In essence, junior faculty at Harvard are traveling the academic equivalent of a dead-end street, and that creates a morale problem...First, Harvard should start hiring minorities and women--not just make noises about how it's trying very hard...Second, departments should begin appointing young, promising scholars. Finally--and most importantly for undergraduates--the Faculty must place far greater emphasis on teaching ability...
...conservatives win, the decade will go down as a triumph for the American way (translation: capitalism). Referring to the vast changes in Eastern Europe, conservatives will say that the wildly expensive military buildup at the beginning of the century paid off by its end...
Through interesting plays on the perspective of the audience at the end of the play and with lines such as Rabbit's "You can't mix real life with the movies," the audience is left to ponder with which characters they identify...
...when the Bruins lost in the Forum. Then lost again. And again. Then they won, four games to one. The end of the jinx...
...Crimson was still clueless in the first period. At the end of the period, the scoreboard read, "Harvard...