Word: grayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Houghton declined to provide a timetable for his eventual retirement, but in recent years, most Corporation members have retired not long after their 70th birthday. Former Corporation member Hanna H. Gray, who served alongside Houghton for eight years before retiring in 2005 at age 74, said yesterday that the retirement rule “has not been rigid...
...Gray said that Houghton’s decision may have been motivated by a desire for continuity during a major administrative transition. She also pointed to Houghton’s “good relationship” with University President-elect Drew G. Faust as a possible reason for staying...
...Usually, politics is a murky business - gray upon gray, one set of mixed motives jostling with another. But sometimes there is a time for choosing - between courage and cynicism, between honor and disgrace...
...telephone-covered desk. He and his wife, Naina, lived in an apartment near the center of town, from which he drove to work or, frequently, took a bus or the subway - to the shock and delight of citizens accustomed to seeing nothing of party big shots but the gray curtains of their speeding ZILs. His popularity increased when he began breezing into food and clothing stores, scolding clerks for rudeness and managers for incompetence. And he became an absolute idol when he carried his campaign into the privileged office of the party apparatchiks. He dismissed two-thirds of the city...
...mishandled by medical and legal response centers. She also neglects to explain how changing women’s “sexual behavior” will change males’ responses to women, or why requiring both partners’ explicit consent is not the logical solution to the gray areas she identifies. Worst of all, her argument assumes that women with “common sense gone askew” are complicit in sexual attacks...