Word: lacking
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...months after a Faculty committee released a report discussing the lack of tenured women faculty in the humanities, Associate Professor of German Beatrice Hanssen was denied tenure last Thursday after eight years at the University...
...long-time supporter of Hanssen, Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies Werner Sollors said that, if anything, Hanssen's case would have been helped by the heigtened sensitivity surrounding the lack of tenured women in the humanities...
Although the lack of respect afforded to teachers certainly does not encourage college graduates to become teachers, the relatively low salary does much more to discourage them. Most of my high school classmates were amazed that I was going to Harvard and that I was "just" going to be a high school history teacher. They wondered how I could live with the lack of respect most teachers receive. However, most Harvard students are perfectly willing to enter a profession that is not particularly respected by the general public; witness the number of us who become lawyers and politicians...
Showing slides and passing around pictures of his visit, Pryor said that the biggest problems facing the refugee camps at the moment are a lack of water and the potential for disease due to poor sanitation...
...This case seems to show the extent of the shambles in the U.S. intelligence establishment," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "The operation to train Muslims to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan during the '80s has proved to be a disaster. And there's an obvious lack of coordination between different arms of the intelligence establishment -- this former field officer of a foreign army turned up as a sergeant in one of the U.S. Army's most sensitive special warfare facilities after having been turned away by the CIA as a security risk in 1984. So there's an obvious question...