Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well there in November because he has courted the Catholic vote. "Nixon has done everything but serve Mass," Troy says. Ted Kennedy's motives were harder to read. In fact, Kennedy has kept the possibility of a candidacy this year alive until now in order to hang on to as much clout as possible, inside the Senate and out. Only last week, he appeared with House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills to push his compulsory national health-insurance plan, and Teddy was all over television plugging his new book on the subject...
...income tax increases that the middle class would be hit with would be politically unsalable without the property-tax relief envisioned in his education proposals and the increased equity in the tax field promised by his inheritance-and corporate-tax suggestions. Though fuzzy in detail, his program does hang together conceptually...
...Graustein number is also a good figure for a department chairman to have ready when a disappointed assistant professor asks why he was not rehired. But this institutionalized mystification fools no one. "The Graustein is simply a clothesline to hang appointments on," quipped one assistant professor...
...such gross mistakes are the exception. The system normally runs quite smoothly. It doesn't encourage good teaching, but it does let some good teachers through. It loses many bright young scholars, but it manages to hang on to a few. Lately, under pressure from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Harvard has increased its hiring of blacks and women. These days, if a clever department chairman wants to hire additional non-tenured faculty, he just looks around for an eligible woman or black. The President and Dean also ask department chairmen to submit a list of blacks...
...Hang in there. Jack, for you're still able to convince many people that muckrakers are divinely appointed prophets, and that all elected high officials-who actually bear the agonizing burden of responsibility-are just callous phonies who care only for reelection...