Word: networker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coalition building dominated this weekend's network of minority conferences, then curriculum change provided the most immediate outlet for the nascent cooperative activism. While longer-ranging social change clearly occupied the minds of all delegates, immediate boosts in women and minority faculty recruitment and ethnic studies course offerings filled the agendas for all five minority groups. The capacity crowd in Paine Hall and the unanimity of support for the aims testify to the urgency of the demand, leaders...
...opportunities in women's athletics and gone ahead and gone after those jobs," Harvard senior swimmer Janice Sweetser says. "A lot of it is economics. In the 1970s, women's sports went to the varsity level and men saw the opportunities and had the coaching background. A whole new network opened up and they jumped...
Women surveyed by Carpenter and Acosta indicated that the strength of the "old boys' club" network--and a correspondingly weak women's network--was the chief reason for the decline of women coaches and administrators...
...flashed absurdities, like vaudeville on amphetamines -- Goldie Hawn dancing in body paint, Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips. Laugh-In gave the nation "You bet your sweet bippy!" and "Sock it to me," a line that Republican Candidate Richard Nixon, among other celebrities, recited in three seconds of network time in September. (In deference to his dignity, Nixon was spared the customary dousing with a bucket of water.) The Rolling Stones snarled about the Street Fighting Man. Never before had an annus mirabilis transpired before the television cameras in Marshall McLuhan's global village: the drama played to a capacity...
Harvard administrators sit down with Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers leaders to embark on contract negotiations. Suddenly, Harvard announces pay increases, a new network of child care facilities and fair job classifications for all support staff. The union negotiators eagerly sign the contract, before the Harvard officials get a chance to utter, "April Fools...