Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council was very late in joining the groundswell of student demands for more minority and women faculty members. A high-profile faculty committee will release a report on the issue during the next two weeks. The council should make sure that this committee's recommendations do not end up forgotten in some University Hall filing cabinet like those of the affirmative action committee which came before...
Congress is taking a cue from such state and local initiatives as it begins to consider new ways of promoting home ownership. After years of battling the Reagan Administration's wrecking-ball approach, which leveled housing funds from 7.5% of the federal budget in the late 1970s to 1.5% last year, many legislators now want the Government to aid first-time buyers actively. One bill, sponsored by Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, would create a $6 billion fund to make low-interest mortgage loans to first- timers who earn up to 115% of the median income...
Collins is captivating as an unabashedly ordinary housewife who wants nothing more than a bit of liveliness and unpredictability but fears it's already too late. She deftly evokes a woman without a mean or malicious thought who sees everyone she knows as a disappointment. She turns the slender plot -- Shirley's sneaking off to Greece for a holiday and her temptation to stay there -- into genuine introspection. It's easy to see why Collins, who originated the role in London, last month won the Olivier Award for that portrayal. Praise belongs as well to designer Bruno Santini, who makes...
...work was highly influential from the 1950s until the late 1960s, when it began to draw fire from Marxist and other leftist critics who said Parsons' scholarship about the stability of systems masked a conservative defense of the status...
...Talcott Parsons did not go around with jack boots and a riding crop. He was a gentle scholar of the old school."--Professor of Sociology James A. Davis about allegations that the late Harvard scholar had worked with U.S. intelligence agents to smuggle Nazi collaborators into the country as Soviet Studies experts...