Word: meant
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Once upon a time, being a tenured professor at Harvard meant being set for life. An established Faculty member could count on a long career of teaching and research at the nation's pre-eminent institution and a salary that led the pack...
...exemption to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act enjoyed by colleges and universities ran out at the end of 1993. No longer able to politely inform professors they were expected to retire by age 70, tenure now truly meant a job for life...
...letter sent to the Faculty including the newly consolidated document, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 emphasized that, unlike a requirement to withdraw, a forced leave of absence is not meant as a punishment...
Upstairs, participants live in "groups" of eight people. The group suites consist of eight tiny but computer-equipped bedrooms, all off an enormous common space that is meant to serve as kitchen, boardroom and living room...
...reform. The bane of the Capital Hill establishment. Two years ago, Feingold, along with senior Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), introduced a remarkable piece of legislation, meant to effectively abolish the corrupt and undemocratic system of campaign finance. The McCain-Feingold Bill would limit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions and ban "soft money," the unlimited contributions to political parties which are then diverted to individual campaigns. For the last two years, however, McCain-Feingold has been ignored by the United States Congress, left to languish in some subcommittee...