Word: foldings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Silber has presented B.U. with two alternatives: either it will be run as a corporation, with little job security and a strong central administration, or it will fold. He refuses to honor tenure in making staff reductions, emphasizing quality rather than seniority. It is true that tenure has been used frequently to keep radicals out of the academic community; but eliminating tenure completely would further increase the power of the central administration. Given Silber's history of conflict with radical professors--he has fought long and hard against the formation of an academic union there--allowing him to remove tenure...
...always will be ... No one is ever going to be sure." He praised his team of distinguished psychiatrists for giving sensible explanations of Patty's conduct. By calling Kozol and Fort, said Bailey, the Government hoped to cause such confusion over the psychiatric testimony "that you'd fold the whole ball of wax and say, 'Well, they disagreed with each other,' and leave it there." Bailey singled out Fort for excoriation, calling him "a psychopath and a habitual liar...
...over to a party for the Harvard squash team in one of the River Houses. Once there, surrounded by non-politicos and unable to remember the last time I had set racquet to ball, I ran into that phenomenon so common to political people who wander outside of the fold; I had nothing to talk about...
...more reason for Wilson to put off elections as long as possible -and if he can avoid a vote of noconfidence, he could wait until 1979. By that time, predicts one of his senior Cabinet members, the recovery of the economy should bring Scottish voters back into the Labor fold. It would not be the first time that the waiting game turned to Harold Wilson's profit...
...guard, because it is so well-planned. Even J.H. Bigham ("a cripple like yourself") wouldn't have any trouble getting around or getting "the best cuts of meat, etc." In the center of Mouseville is the hall of the American presidents where 38 life-sized electronic dummies nod and fold and unfold arms while the Battle Hymn of the Republic plays on the sound system. Ike and Harding and Lincoln and Uncle Baines stand there as dream images to be lit up every hour on the hour for a group that has waited in line for two hours...