Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the CfA solution is not free from disadvantages. At the observable level, joint staffing prompts confusion among professors in affiliation, not unlike that of sophomore-standing students within their class. "I'm complicated. I'm tenured Harvard faculty, but Harvard doesn't pay my salary," said Huchra...
...instead of proving their moral superiority to fascism, the protesters sunk to Mlot-Mroz's level, shouting him down and forcing him to leave. Had the organizers handled Mlot-Mroz differently--by giving him five uninterrupted minutes to speak, for instance--Mlot-Mroz would have made clear his loony positions and would not have been able to present himself as a persecuted victim...
Lonoff succeeded in opening the door by turning a hand-operated mechanism, then slipped out the chamber and descended the remaining three-and-a-half feet to the C level floor assisted by a firefighter "who very gallantly lent me his shoulder...
...drunk while on duty. The company announced last week that tanker crews will now have to be on board at least four hours before leaving port -- a regulation Exxon Shipping President Frank Iarossi admits is designed to provide sobering-up time. But Hazelwood had an unacceptably high blood-alcohol level nine hours after the incident, and so would have been impaired even under the new rules. Moreover, despite Hazelwood's several arrests for drunken driving and treatment in 1985 for alcohol abuse, Exxon failed to supervise the skipper adequately and allowed him to keep piloting...
...think [the march] really reenergized people," says Jennifer A. Dunne '89, who organized the 11 charter buses that brought Harvard undergraduates to Washington. "It was really exciting to see it happen and come together. I was astounded at the number of people who went." The level of activism at Harvard, too, is on an upswing, she says...