Word: letters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students, complaining of weak teaching skills among the school's highly touted faculty, emphasized the need for a new dean able to foster a "more humane environment," said Clark, quoting from a student's letter to the faculty committee...
...school seems to exist primarily for the professors," one student wrote in a letter to the faculty search committee, Clark said...
Opponents of the bill, especially small-business owners, fear that temporary replacements would be costly and less productive. Says Texas Republican Congressman Dick Armey: "Parental leave is really nothing but a form of yuppie welfare financed by other American workers." In a letter to his colleagues, Armey describes the slippery benefits slope that might follow, warning that parents would soon be demanding paid parental leave, then health benefits, then mandated day-care services. "I shudder to think what would come beyond that," he writes. Sweden, perhaps...
...letter to Dukakis, Vellucci wrote, "Since Mr. Bennett targeted Cambridge as being 'Un-American' we are ready to do battle and let the whole world know that Cambridge is composed of 58 different languages and that we consider ourselves full fledged Americans...
...media have always been torn by two hallowed dicta. One instructed editors and producers to tell the nation what it wants to hear: if letter-turning is what captures the public's fancy, then the public deserves Vanna White every night...