Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these committees. PACS contributed more than $60 million to the 1978 election campaigns for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives alone. The apparent impact thus far has been not to strengthen conservatives as such but simply to strengthen incumbents, since the PACS tend to give to officeholders who offer some political clout in Congress. Despite highly visible turnovers in Congress, 96% of the House members were returned to Washington...
...preparing two lecture courses and a seminar. Last year he sent applications all over the country for jobs in his or related fields. In his specialty, perhaps three positions opened up; he did not get a job. Employment prospects for next year look equally grim, and his one viable offer is a position as researcher for the Central Intelligence Agency...
...salaries are by no means the highest in the country. "This place isn't the inevitable talent market it used to be--other universities are much richer and can pay more than Harvard. The City University of New York has one endowed chair of $100,000--Harvard would never offer that much," an assistant professor says. "We just can't compete financially," agrees Donald...
...certainty of tenure denial at Harvard, given the scarce job market around the country for academics, will begin to dissuade the most talented young scholars from choosing to come to Harvard if they have the choice in a tenure track position at another university. "If one had a viable offer elsewhere, it would be foolish to come here," Dale says, adding, "Other universities of lesser stature can lure the best professors away, because they can say what no responsible person at Harvard can say--'we could hire you.'" Other professors disagree with Dale's prophesy, believing that Harvard's prestige...
Ehrenreich and English had to cover a lot of ground to get from the domestic and industrious woman of the pre-industrial era in England and America to the Cosmopolitan woman of the 1970s. Although they have a flair for interesting detail, they don't offer enough rigorous evidence to qualify as scholarly literature. Tending to linger over obvious cases of misguided science like the gory methods doctors used in the 19th century to 'cure' their patients or the moral weaknesses of contemporary pop psychology, the authors gloss over some of the more complex issues...