Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep the flaps out may have permitted air pressure to push them back in. Now, the undamaged right wing, flaps still extended and engine still thrusting, had more lift than the left. It rose rapidly until it was perpendicular to the ground. At that terrifying angle, the DC-10 lost airspeed and plunged into a field half a mile from the runway...
...agreements with Harvard delegated the day-to-day responsibility for the education of undergraduate women to Harvard, members of the Board of Trustees claim that Radcliffe is more influential in the lives of undergraduate women now than it ever has been. But if that's true, something has been lost in the translation...
...library does not appear to have harmed the school. It dissuaded one speaker, an industrialist, from coming to the K-School, but many other controversial figures disregarded the commotion and spoke at the school anyway, Allison says. And Jackson points out that the school does not appear to have lost any donations because of the controversy. Two years ago, the K-School adopted a more organized fundraising method to raise $25 million, and has already raised about $16 million, much of it during this controversy-filled year...
Reginald R. Isaacs, Norton Professor of Regional Planning Emeritus and chairman of the department of CRP from 1953 to 1964, has persistently criticized Kilbridge's policies. He says Kilbridge resigned because he lost the confidence of the alumni and the Overseers. However, other observers within the department say Kilbridge received the strongest backing he has ever received in the last few years. Gerrald M. McCue, associate dean of the faculty of design, analyzed Kilbridge's departure, saying, "He's in a period of greater support than ever before. I suspect his motivation was to get out while he was ahead...
Ylvisaker stresses the importance of keeping educational issues in the public eye. "Education is just too damned important" to be buried, he says, adding, "Even if the Secretary of Education lost battle after battle, we'd still have a spokesman." Bailey takes a more pragmatic view. Education, he argues, must be "dignified and elevated to the point when somebody like Derek Bok can call up the Secretary on a particular issue and say, 'For Chrissakes...