Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currently, Harvard officials say, there are nosuch formal programs to help newly-tenuredprofessors find homes in Cambridge. Instead, HREis building townhouses for junior faculty membersat 245 Concord Ave. and is also giving facultymembers the first chance to buy two- tothree-family houses before they go on the openmarket...
...addition, Law School Administrative DeanSimone Reagor said, "Sometimes the [Law School]dean might help out with housing on an individualbasis." She said such aid "could take the form ofa direct subsidy" on a mortgage, but that the LawSchool had not used either of the formal mortgageprograms for about six years.Former Supreme Court nominee DOUGLAS H.GINSBURG...
Legislators too are getting into the act. In the House of Representatives a measure has been introduced that would reimpose formal commercial-time strictures on kids' shows. A Senate bill would require the networks to run at least seven hours a week of educational programming for children. The tone of some lawmakers has grown combative. Says Democratic Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts: "What was once called a vast wasteland is now more accurately dubbed a vast waste dump...
WHEN HE first took office in 1971, President Bok noted in a speech to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that the teaching skills of teaching fellows were all too often lacking. He suggested that TFs receive formal training, that departments offer basic courses in teaching skills to graduate students, and that faculty members meet weekly with their teaching staffs...
...Another old Riley hand, Major General Lawrence ("Bud") Schlanser, arrived at the post as a second lieutenant and married Jill Rodney, daughter of Colonel Dorcey Read Rodney, the commandant, "a little bandy-legged guy, tough as an old boot." Socializing for young married officers and their wives was both formal and innocent -- tuxedos or dress blues for the men, 15 cents movies and milk shakes afterward at the PX. "Your sole purpose in life was to develop your equestrian skills," Schlanser recalls. "Yeah, they paid us to ride and stay in shape," says Colonel James Spurrier, president...