Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of Wisconsin literary expert has rejected a tenure offer from Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department, marking the second time this year that an outside scholar has turned down a lifetime post from the troubled department...
...department has not made a senior level appointment since Werner Sollors, the department's chair, was tenured in 1983. Arnold Rampersad, another Afro Am literary expert, declined an offer from the University earlier this year...
...August 7 meeting, the council approved the sale on the condition that the developers consult a neighborhood advisory commitee and a traffic expert before beginning construction. Higley's proposal would have made those conditions part of the initial purchase and sale agreement between the city and the developer, rather than the final transfer of property...
...sympathies. So you see, in this place you can say what you want. Just remember to be careful outside." As we leave Bi's classroom, he turns out the lights and, without even a faint smile, sets the clock ahead an hour. Like many Chinese, Bi is expert at concealing his feelings behind a facade of impassivity and self-control. "You never know who may come by and see the clock," he says. "It is crucial to go through the motions. Be subtle even in protest...
With hindsight, some British experts suspect that Gorbachev was led into fundamental errors by his own dynamism, self-confidence and impatience. Says a senior British official: "He moved on all fronts simultaneously, which has confronted him with all the country's problems at once." Many Soviet scholars regard the party bureaucracy as the main obstacle to reform and argue that Gorbachev, despite top-level housecleaning, has so far failed to sweep out conservatives and dead wood at the middle and local levels, where things get done -- or don't. Others say glasnost unleashed pent-up ethnic resentment. By attacking across...