Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where's the Big Guy?: Despite a full house for the season opener--the attendance level hit 3130--Bright Center was strangely quiet Friday night. The Harvard band, known as much for its heckles as its music, was in Philadelphia for the football game over the weekend...
...sorry record in race relations was reaffirmed in September when a federal court in El Paso found that the bureau had systematically assigned Hispanic agents to low-level duties known as the "taco circuit." The court warned that it might impose reforms on the agency's promotions system. Now FBI supervisors may be making matters worse: lawyers for 20 of the 311 agents involved in the suit went to court last week to charge that a number of those involved in the case had been removed from their duties or harassed in other ways...
...friend, their home city, or other computer-related terms. Morris exploited this fact and programmed his virus to request information about users from the computer and use that information to try to guess their passwords. Only one password on each system needed be discovered to break through the next level of computer security...
...likely repeat it even as they light up another one. But as dangerous as the health hazards are, they fail to convince. And that is why Larry White's new book, Merchants of Death: The American Tobacco Industry is so useful. White's argument is joined at a moral level, arguing not only that that smoking is bad for you, but that smoking is bad for everyone, because it props up a tobacco industry which is ruthless in its pursuit of power...
...which grants each department a certain number of Full Time Equivalents or FTEs, is designed to introduce flexibility and consistency into the faculty appointments process. Perhaps the most important change is that when junior faculty members come up for tenure, there does not have to be a senior-level vacancy for the scholars to be considered for lifetime posts...