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Word: fall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stamp out dissent. They accuse him of censoring student publications and the student radio station. Most recently, they protest his effort to fire or suspend five of his staunchest critics on the faculty for teaching classes off-campus or making them up later during a clerical workers' strike this fall...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: John R. Silber: War and Peace at Boston University | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

Since then Silber has reshuffled the board of trustees so that many observers believe the board is only a rubber stamp. Helen B. Spaulding, a former trustee who was edged out this fall after disagreements with Silber, says that at B.U. the president chooses the trustees instead of the other way around. She says the 46 trustees--most of whom are successful businessmen--have little contact with students or faculty. Moreover, Silber has sometimes tried to isolate the trustees from other administrators, she says...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: John R. Silber: War and Peace at Boston University | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

...crisis reached its peak this fall, hitting the Globe harder than other area papers. The space allotted to news in the Globe dropped 7 per cent this fall, Giuggio estimated, and pictures of newly married couples were eliminated from the wedding pages of the Sunday section...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Paper Drought Plagues Boston Papers; No Space for Golden Anniversaries | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

...plot contains little more than the intrigue of four flirtships in one family. We see four different affairs budding in four different parts of the whitewashed house during a family party. For the most part though, the affairs are routine--the restless fall to the restless, the pious to the pious, the young to the young, and the bored and middle-aged to none...

Author: By Sarah G. Boxer, | Title: The Missing James | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

Earlier this fall the town of Brookline had threatened to sue the MBTA if Foster channeled too much settlement money into general operating expenses. Town Counsel David L. Turner agreed not to file suit until the settlement was concluded...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Trolley Settlement To Aid Green Line | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

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