Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes even the most ossified policy can break down under new pressures. In April, Dean Spence announced a long overdo reform in Harvard's practice of passing over its own junior professors for tenure in favor of world class heavyweights. Three problems motivated the change. First, the traditional tenure policy has been yielding fewer and fewer top academic guns eager for the opportunity of supping at the Faculty Club and purchasing overpriced Boston real estate. Second, Harvard has become a junior faculty farm team for other universities, providing them top tenurable scholars who will often prefer to stay put when...
...package also created a 10-member community advisory council that would review requests for the special permits. The package was amended to favor neighborhood interests over business interests in the composition of the advisory council...
...stratosphere that is proves not only that life is unfair, it's unreasonable. The concentration of careerist power in this place is so heavy that in certain key seminars you feel like you're present at Louis XIVth's toilet, a court jester competing for the Great One's favor...
Kohl's Christian Democrat-led coalition continues to favor more nuclear plants. The rival Social Democrats, who in the elections will be headed by Johannes Rau, the minister-president of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, want to phase out existing facilities "as soon as is feasible." The ecology- minded Greens have been gaining in strength since Chernobyl, and their demand that the nation's 20 commercial atomic plants be immediately closed seems attuned to the mood of the country; a recent survey found that 69% of those questioned oppose further nuclear expansion...
...Power. "They're coming for maintenance and fine-tuning." And relief from stress. With that in mind, Cal-a-Vie is a pioneer in trying to add a European flavor to its U.S.-style exercise and dietary programs. Europe's spas, which date back to the Roman Empire, still favor mudbaths and water therapy, and Cal-a-Vie offers three Continental treatments that relax and help detoxify the body. The piece de resistance: thalassotherapy, from the Greek thalassa, or sea. Guests lie naked on a table while their bodies are painted with a deep-green seaweed paste. Then they...