Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same drug pusher whom Baba beats is, in fact, a good friend of Krishna's. Raghubir Yadav plays Chillum, the strung-out ganja addict and pusher, with frenzied exuberance, red-eyed and real. When the drug addict is given the boot by Baba, Krishna helps him, unwittingly providing the money for the fix that kills his friend...
...Associate Dean for Academic Planning Phyllis Keller describes it, the new system is "a comprehensive savings account and checkbook given to departments, where the currency is positions rather than money...
...salaries of all junior and senior professors for the year. Each department is allocated a "steady-state" number of positions--computed by adding up the number of both junior and senior posts that departments had under the old system--that it is allowed to fill and is then given leeway to decide the exact balance between junior and senior faculty...
...different story in Foxboro. The interest may be there--Sunday's game was a sellout--but the enthusiasm is not. It seemed like someone had given Sullivan Stadium one big valium pill...
...Harvard can't just give them everything theyare asking for," said one employee, who requestedanonymity. "Something will have to be given up,there may even be a strike and how do we know thatwe will gain more than we lose...