Word: modicums
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...proposal by Faculty Council members yesterday to select their next dean marks a break from centuries of Harvard tradition.But the bid by professors to establish a modicum of self-governance in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is in some respects an attempt to return to Harvard’s historically decentralized administrative structure.If the Faculty does take control of the dean search, that would infringe upon the president’s traditional sphere of influence.Yet, while yesterday’s proposal in some senses upends the standard dean selection process, it also highlights the reality that?...
...takes is a modicum of intelligence [to defend ourselves],” he said. “We have the Fourth Amendment and strict evidentiary requirements...
Klaus also said he that he supports the Czech Republic’s membership despite his opposition to many of the EU practices. Klaus’s justification for Czech membership lies in the idea that post-Communist countries need EU acceptance to achieve some modicum of “international recognition” and legitimacy...
...multiple offspring if they were willing to pay big fines. The costs can be exorbitant for peasants like Li--$365 or more for the first additional child in Linyi, around four times the average annual net income in this impoverished region. But at least the Chinese now possess a modicum of choice in family matters, which they lacked a few years...
...Even Shi'ite and Sunni political and clerical groups, who had been at each other's throats for months, managed to find a modicum of solidarity. "This is not the time for politics," said Abdul Salam al-Qubaisi, spokesman for the radical Association of Muslim Scholars (A.M.S.). "This is the time to show that we are all of the same flesh, the same body." The A.M.S. and other Sunni groups were working with groups loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shi'ite leader and uncrowned king of Sadr City. In an unprecedented gesture, the A.M.S. even invited Shi'ites...