Word: fieldings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most frequently voiced complaints about Harvard's tenure system is that it requires its candidates to meet the nebulous, objective standard of "the best" in a field...
...finally got her wish. "Sunspot isn't properly a town," she says, but a "singularly beautiful place, high on a mountain peak, that is one of the world's most important centers of solar research." The day after her arrival, Nash looked through a telescope "longer than a football field" to view the rising sun. She glimpsed a stunning, white-hot world swept by turbulence that made it look "grainy, as if sprinkled with sand." At the same time, she saw that "gargantuan sunspots had erupted like a rash" on either side of the solar equator...
...rage of race is exactly what has stirred a righteous debate over Lee's movie. After it lost the top prize at last month's Cannes Film Festival (to a comedy by another young American, Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies and videotape), jury member Sally Field told Lee she fought to get him a prize. The film's detractors called it facile and irresponsible; Lee responded by accusing his critics of racism...
Robert G. Stachler, Rose's advocate during the hearings, said, "If there is one American institution that the public expects to adhere to the concept of fair play, that institution is major-league baseball. All we're looking for is a level playing field." Because the controversial Giamatti letter predated Dowd's interview with Rose, let alone Giamatti's hearing (originally scheduled for May 25), Stachler argued that Rose had already been "found in effect guilty." The captain of baseball's squad of attorneys, Louis Hoynes, talked about a commissioner with two hats. He said Giamatti was wearing his "investigator...
There is nothing hokey about Bush's indignation. He has carried his reverence for the symbols of freedom on his sleeve as long as he has been in politics and used them a time or two for political advantage. Back in the presidential primary campaign of l988, Bush's field surveys showed that the controversy over requiring the Pledge of Allegiance in schools was a warm issue, the pro-Pledge stand wildly favored in many audiences. His visit to a New Jersey flag factory during the campaign drew some boos from the political commentators, but Bush never blushed...