Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fair Share's tax coalition has already been successful in wrangling over $9 million out of the major airlines which use Boston's Logan Airport. In addition, the group was instrumental in changing Massachusetts law to allow the release and publication of the names of outstanding delinguent taxpayers. This action has led to the city's collection of millions of dollars in back taxes. Fair Share has also gone after individual delinquents with equal success...
...Sciences chose to take one- or two-semester leaves. Although leave-taking creates some minor administrative headaches for department officials and a few course selection disappointments for students, it does allow faculty members to recharge their intellectual curiosity, and it inevitably leads to another year's publication of major works...
...fear of being isolated from the outside world is perhaps the second major factor which encourages professors to get away. Like many students who are concerned about being shut up in an ivy tower, they may fear that the Harvard environment shelters them from the realities of life, fosters parochial attitudes, and stifles creativity...
...professor of Government, who will teach a course on Mideastern political development this year, used a spring semester leave to write a manuscript on the Mideast entitled, "The Palestinian Society of Politics," and to begin another book, "Strong Societies and Weak States." The latter work, he said, represents a major theoretical breakthrough...
Migdal emphasized the importance of leaves for the regeneration of ideas. "Harvard is a research university, and we very little appreciate how important long stretches of time are to major research. It's simply very hard to develop new ideas in a high-pressure environment," he said...