Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought a takeover would actually occur at Harvard, Epps says. But after hearing a presentation by Professor Archibald Cox '34--later famous as a special prosecutor who investigated Nixon--about similar actions at other schools, the University began to prepare anyway...
Second, if the procedure followed in these cases was in fact improper, and a conflict of interest did occur in the ad hoc committee, greater accountability could have prevented a wrong tenure decision. Establishing specific criteria for the selection of a candidate-and requiring that the ad hoc committee justify its recommendation in terms of these criteria--would go a long way to ensure consistency in tenure decisions across departments and to reduce the mystery for junior Faculty facing a tenure decision. Such criteria would also be subject to public debate, giving students the ability to affect a process...
...long ago, many psychiatrists argued that children and young teens could not get depressed because they were not mature enough to internalize their anger. Today, says Fassler, "we realize that depression does occur in childhood and adolescence and that it occurs more often in children than we previously realized...
...mental disorders and in some cases psychosis as teens and adults. Three studies on children who were depressed before puberty show that as adults they had a higher rate of antisocial behavior, anxiety and major depression than those who experienced their first depressive episode as teens. "Prepubertal depression does occur, and those who get it are more susceptible to [the] mania [of bipolar disorder] later," says Dr. John March, director of the program on pediatric psychopharmacology at Duke University. "The earlier you get it, the more likely you will develop chronic depressive and anxiety symptoms...
China's response to the May 7 bombing demonstrates how little weight U.S.-China ties currently carry. The protests following the bombing were clearly organized and fanned by the Chinese government. In a country like China, public protests cannot occur without government support; government buses ferried students to the U.S. embassy, and the state-controlled media whipped up the fury and refused to broadcast repeated apologies from Clinton and NATO leaders...