Word: glacial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entirely. At last week's Faculty meeting, the members of the class of 1980 who broke the CRR boycott were able to see the fruits of their labor enacted in Faculty legislation. They could not fail to have been disappointed. As Dean Rosovsky observed, change at Harvard proceeds with glacial speed. The CRR proves his point. What is unclear, however, is whether the CRR's glacier is advancing or retreating...
...Harvard believe it, and are comfortable in it. Three-and-a-half years ago Henry Rosovsky introduced himself to the Class of '79 in Sanders Theater with the reassuring thought that "the process of change at Harvard moves with glacial speed." We accepted that, partly because it was 9 in the morning and still Freshman Week, and partly because it was spoken with such a calm assurance--the easy arrogance of the truth...
Cover-ups and long delays. Congress has become increasingly unhappy with the glacial pace with which first the DOE and now the Justice Department have pursued their parallel investigations into the new-for-old and the daisy-chain swindles. Investigators for the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power are looking into the possibility that there might have been outright collusion between some of the probers and the probed, even though oilmen argue that the delays were probably caused by DOE understaffing and inefficiency. Says Michael Barrett, a subcommittee counsel: "Some of these cases were ready to go two years...
...kind of year that Harvard administrators--or student--had come to expect. It was simply not the kind of year that could support all the familiar, pat theories of student apathy, the creeping "new mood" of preprofessionalism, the old refrain that "change at Harvard always proceeds with glacial speed." It was, in fact, a year filled with relatively swift changes--in both the structure and attitudes that shape student life. The years of retrenchement, of building up scar tissue over the wounds of the last decade, seemed finally...
...storm caused only one fatality in the town; nevertheless, the devastation was awesome. Geographically speaking, the storm could not have found a more suitable victim. Hull, Massachusetts consists of four drumlins--glacial hills--connected by seven miles of low-lying land. The town's width varies between a half mile and ten yards, and once the high tide had flowed over the seawalls, it rolled right across to the ocean on the other side of the town...