Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenure of professors who serve students well, or for reforms in the structure of undergraduate education will fall on deaf ears. In arguing against divestment, Bok simply evokes concerns about the financial health of the University. In defending tenure policies or educational requirements, Dean Michael Spence need only lay claim to insight into departmental excellence to silence opposition. But who is it that determines financial priorities, who consensts, and why? Who decides whether a department has achieved its primary objective of educating its students? Why is there no adequate apparatus for some student input into basic decisions...
What's more, because of its three-week lay-off for exams, Harvard was well-rested and injury-free. And the seniors on the team, who for the last three years had spent the second Monday in February playing in front of yawning audiences in the Tournament's consolation game, were eager--almost desperate--to get to the final. They had yet to play before a full and maddening Boston Garden crowd...
...street, smiling all the more if the food is still warm. At night he sleeps in the subway stations, catnapping between police rounds amid the thunder of the trains. "Some of these guys sleep right on the damn floor," he says. "Not me. I always use two newspapers and lay them out neatly. Then I pray the rats...
...street at least twelve protesters lay dead and dozens wounded; the final count of injured would reach 94. Not only were the deaths the first to have occurred in a demonstration against the Aquino government, but the toll surpassed that of a similar tragedy in Manila in September 1983, when Ferdinand Marcos was still in power. At that time eleven people were killed at the very same spot during an antiregime rally. Surveying the scene after last week's carnage, a policeman shook his head and muttered, "They fired too soon...
...Traditionally we don't do well after the lay-off," defenseman Mark Benning said. "But in the long run, it's good. We get a chance to rest up and heal some of the injuries...