Word: motioning
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Ciarelli has filed a counter-motion to dismiss the case...
...eight professors who spoke out harshly against the president had set in motion a rocky battle for influence in the University, to be fought in the following Faculty meetings, on the pages of newspapers, and behind closed doors...
...meantime, Matory had placed his motion on the docket, calling for an explicit up-or-down vote on Summers’ leadership. Most professors at the time believed it would not pass...
...were silent when Matory, the first professor to speak, walked up to the microphone to introduce his motion: “Twenty years. Twenty years. That is the average length of a Harvard president’s tenure. And that is why our vote today matters.” Matory spoke slowly, deliberately, and confidently...
...finished by restating his motion: “I hereby move that the Faculty vote, by secret ballot, on the following resolution: ‘The Faculty lacks confidence in the leadership of Lawrence H. Summers...