Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Attendance is another problem that Epps feels is plaguing the Council, and he cites its frequent turnover of some seats which members forfeit once they miss three meetings. This, he explains, may be indicative of a lack of interest in the council which could ultimately cause its downfall if there is one willing...
Despite Sever's political victory, the Corporation was not a real exponent of academic freedom in the 18th century. It still engaged in frequent battles with the Overseers over University business and frequently hired and fired professors for their personal beliefs. Harvard would have to wait over 100 years, until the term of President Charles William Eliot, before the University's hiring policy truly reflected respect for academic freedom...
Royko, who occasionally takes a swipe at television news in his column, says that "Nightline" is "informative." A frequent guest on the show. Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of law, agrees that live television is the best medium for "Nightline." "There's a dynamism about bringing controversy to TV," he says...
...idea had been planted in Reagan's mind by his friend and frequent adviser Edward Teller, the Hungarian-born superhawk, often described as the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose bold and controversial ideas have occasionally led some of his fellow physicists to moan, "E.T., go home." Teller's brainstorm became Reagan's dream, and the dream became national policy. In a speech in March 1983, the President asked, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that . . . we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that...
...chief criticism of executive pay is its frequent failure to correlate with company profits. Says Sibson's Johnson: "The madness we see in executive compensation is that we pay star performers too little and poor performers too much." In 1982, for instance, when Mobil earnings dropped 43%, the salary of Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr. increased 36%, to nearly $1.4 million. The struggling International Harvester loaded rewards upon Chairman Archie McCardell in the late 1970s and early 1980s even though the company suffered a devastating strike and came close to bankruptcy. When McCardell finally left the ailing company...