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...problem is a long time-lag in grad schools," Peterson says "Four to ten years ago, the market was terrible, and graduate schools were unpopular. Now it's hard to get junior faculty...

Author: By Dhananjai Shivakumar, | Title: Drifting Away From the Architect's Vision | 4/25/1990 | See Source »

...There's a very substantive lag in the development of this policy," Maher says, adding, "you can shorten that if there are members of the Faculty in on the [high-level] discussions...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Low-Profile Group Has Strong Impact | 4/7/1990 | See Source »

Battling jet lag, midterm blues and rusty play, the top-seeded Crimson shot past Iowa yesterday at the UC-Irvine Tourney in Irvine...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netmen Give Hawkeyes a Black Eye, 8-1 | 3/23/1990 | See Source »

Thus, the department will continue to lag far behind student interest in areas such as modern American literature and Victorian literature. Although its problems are of a slightly different nature, Afro-American Studies also suffers at the hand of the tenure system. Its inability to attract faculty members has resulted in a situation in which no courses will be taught this fall by members of the department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Lessons | 3/7/1990 | See Source »

...crisis. Constructed when Grover Cleveland was President, it handles offenders with sentences of up to 30 months, many of them for violent crimes. For years Massachusetts prisons have been among the most overcrowded in the country, recently housing 15,000 inmates in space built for 10,000. New facilities lag far behind demand. In 1989 alone, the number of Massachusetts inmates increased by 820. Simply to stay even, the state would have to construct a new large facility every year, an impossible objective. Since 1983 Massachusetts has committed $1 billion to new prison construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sheriff Strikes Back | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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