Word: leading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Administrators favored a "quick bust" response over waiting out a standoff, which administrators feared would lead to a "a slow blood-letting" and divide students and Faculty...
...Alan E. Heimert '49 had only been recently toiling away as a junior faculty member and had just received tenure as the Cabot Professor of American Literature, along with taking the reins of Eliot House in 1968 as its master. Heimert would lead the Committee of Fifteen, an administrative body which decided the fate of the most egregious offenders...
...Italian astronomers posted preliminary calculations of its orbit on their website. But when these results were repeated on CCnet, a widely read e-mail network, some astronomers were outraged. They felt an unwarranted repeat of last year's scare would be the astronomical equivalent of crying wolf and could lead to public indifference. But news of 1999 AN10 spurred other astronomers to track the asteroid. They posited that the tug of terrestrial gravity during the 2027 flyby could change the asteroid's orbit enough to threaten Earth during a 2044 passage. Indeed, say astronomers, 1999 AN10's path will remain...
...affliction that can lead to undereating, overeating, food or gas poisoning, depression, even death. More than three-quarters of us will suffer from it by the time we reach our 80s. But the good news is that in some cases this affliction--the loss of taste or smell, which together enable us to savor food--can be treated. And even when these senses can't be restored, there are ways to compensate...
...favorite cause. Nancy Reagan just said no to drugs, Barbara Bush tried to improve literacy, and Hillary Clinton has been pressing for children?s rights. Now would-be First Lady Tipper Gore has decided to stump for her cause: the mentally ill. On Monday, Mrs. Gore took the lead in convening the first White House conference on mental illness, at which the President announced a $7.3 million study and pressed for better insurance coverage...