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Bargain Price. After that, he can be fired, but only for compelling reasons such as flagrant incompetence, moral turpitude or his college's dire financial straits. The college must present formal charges, usually before a jury-like panel of the professor's colleagues. The rules are enforced by the American Association of University Professors, which threatens to put violating colleges on a "censured" list that warns other professors to avoid working at the blackballed institutions...
...police statement cited "the replacement of lawful protest by unlawful activity, numerous and flagrant violations of the conditions [of the group's permit] and rampant illegal use of narcotics" as reasons for the revocation...
Despite this flagrant de facto violation of Faculty policy on leaves of absence, it is futile to ask the Faculty to pressure a department in order to change a decision that is in the interests of so many of its members. I encourage other members of the University to write the Overseers' Visiting Committee for the Government Department concerning Kissinger's apparently indissoluble link with the Government and this University...
...most flagrant example of this occurs in the romance of the young Scrooge and Fezziwig's daughter. Dickens only gives us a scene in which a woman (not Miss Fezziwig) returns her engagement ring to Scrooge because he has a new passion, for Gain. Briscusse shows the whole courtship to the background of a song called "Happiness Is," or something like that. Pure, thick soup. The level of intelligence is nowhere near an old version of A Christmas Carol, with Alistair Sim, in which the Fezziwig episode was padded much more effectively by having Scrooge ruin Fezziwig and heartlessly take...
Irked at what they called "flagrant disregard for the safety of children," the Consumers Union and the Children's Foundation, both nonprofit groups, threatened last week to sue HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson for failure to use the emergency powers. "This is inexcusable inattention," said Morris Kaplan, Consumers Union technical director. "How many children have to be maimed or killed at Christmas before HEW acts...