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Word: fitly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hill seems to have come to the Institute for just these reasons--to meet and work with women who are scholarly and diverse. "I knew it would be serious but not just scholasticism--people may interact or just work as they see fit. It's intellectually comfortable here, almost like being freed up of all administrative work and being a third-year graduate student again," Hill says. And the absence of telephones in the offices of the fellows indicates clearly the atmosphere of hard and individual work the Institute hopes to provide...

Author: By Nicole Seligman, | Title: A research center of one's own | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...payroll system in an interview last week, stating that the OIT staff had recommended the Datapoint machine for a "distributed" computer system and a Hewlett-Packard computer for a centralized system. Wyatt chose the Datapoint machine, he said, in part because he believed the distributed system better fit into budgetarily decentralized Harvard. The Datapoint machine also afforded greater privacy, he added, and it could be leased, unlike the purchase-only Hewlett Packard. Wyatt also said that Datapoint "is looking quite good now," and that Harvard is considering taking out a long-term lease...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Challenging Harvard's top dogs | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

Hale Champion, vice president for administration, sees the issue of Brown-Beasley's working relationships far differently. For the best systems development, Champion says, there must be a cooperative effort between the various people involved. Not only does Brown-Beasley not fit into the cooperative method, Champion says, but he believes that "what is optimum in any given situation is his idea and that no one else's position is important unless they agree with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, supposedly | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...than a decade ago when Bunting was at her peak. "The president of Radcliffe is in a rather restricted position--not a completely free agent. The job entails much more diplomacy and negotiation. It's less a job of setting policy for Radcliffe than finding the best way to fit Radcliffe into Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horner's Radcliffe: A state of flux | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

SftP says the capitalist system forces to focus on coercing the individual to fit the system, and that such a society places profit before people. Among the examples cited by SftP are: attempts to cure cancer through recombinant DNA research rather than by eliminating carcinogens from the environment; screening factory workers for genetic susceptibility to tungsten-caused cancer rather than eliminating the hazard; pinning the blame for deviant behavior and widespread social ills on the genes of individuals rather than on the structure of society...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Keeping science accountable | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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