Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of an outside committee established to help the English Department make six tenure appointments left the panel after accusations that he sexually harrassed a student...
Four professors in MacFarland's department have resigned since the allegations were made public, at least two of them stating that they left because of what they said was Princeton's leniency toward the scholar...
...viewers back in the U.S.S.R. saw footage of the protesters only on the day their leader left China, and even then the events were presented as two completely different stories. During Gorbachev's stay, Soviet television had blacked out the demonstrations. However, within minutes after Gorbachev boarded the plane in Shanghai and headed home, TASS carried its first detailed story on the crisis. What the Soviet press has yet to report, of course, is what Gorbachev, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and the other members of the Soviet diplomatic team really thought about their extraordinary visit. Quipped a Soviet journalist...
...retaining wall will need to be destroyed. Developers of the Rose site have also proposed re-covering the remains. But critics say the theater fragments are too fragile for such treatment. Moreover, construction plans still call for 20 concrete piles, some of which would be driven through what is left of the theater...
...companies to enter the cable business. In addition, the bill asked the Federal Communications Commission to study the cross-ownership of cable networks and systems by the same companies. Said Gore, a frequent critic of the cable industry: "Deregulation has allowed too many cable companies to gouge consumers and left too many consumers as unprotected victims...