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...individual owner. Slaves were expected to labor, but their main function was not, or not only, economic. More important, as a member of a kin group, albeit one that might be exploited or sacrificed, a slave had status in society and could begin to acquire some elements of "insidership" almost from the start. Slave status in most societies was in fact eroded over time and down the generations, so that the individual or his descendants became less and less marginalized ? or gradually entered into full membership of the group. None of this was true of slavery in the Americas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERVIEW: David Eltis | 10/5/2000 | See Source »

...committees are very influential and each year habitually help Bok to decide to turn down three or four of the approximately 20 nominations advanced by the departments for the lifetime positions. They are supposed to be independent sources of counsel designed to guard against departmental "insidership" in pushing a particular candidate...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: 'A Socratic Gadfly' | 4/18/1984 | See Source »

...that complicated. The thrust of the tenure system administrators have said, is to ensure the widest possible effort to recruit the very best in a given field. To this end, an elaborate system of checks and balances in place since the 1930s, has been created regard against "insidership" and to make sure candidates are judged strictly on their merits as scholars and teachers, not their political skills. (Some professors maintain, however, that the tenure process in certain departments have mailed the budget process on Capitol Hill...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, Compiled MICHAEL J. abramewin, Rebecca J. Joseph, and John D. Selamen, S | Title: Issues of the Day | 7/15/1983 | See Source »

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