Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plight of undergraduate harassment victims. The recent case illustrates that the problem is no less severe for graduate students and faculty member s, who, because they work in a narrow area of study cannot avoid continued interaction with the harasser. Women scholars at Harvard have found the path to tenure difficult enough: the added problem of sexual harassment threatens to ensure that the University's faculty will remain predominantly male...
...many years the astronomers at the Lowell Observatory, which Percival Lowell built with his own money at clear-aired Flagstaff, Ariz., have been pointing their telescopes to the path in the skies where he had said his planet would be moving. The night of last Jan. 21, Clyde W. Tombaugh, 24, an assistant at the observatory, saw a strange blotch of light on a new plate. He hastily took the photograph to Vesto Melvin Slipher, director of the observatory. They were quite excited. Here visibly was Percival Lowell's proof. Night after night they rephotographed the planet. Pictures showed...
...Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung had won the war; he could dictate the terms of peace. What Mao wanted was power to put China in the Communist bloc. That he already had. He could proceed along the path of compromise and coalition certain that, with Chiang's passing, the back of anti-Communist resistance in China had been broken...
...worse than walking under ladders or breaking a mirror, opening an umbrella indoors or stepping on a crack. When a Black Knight crosses your path, you know you're in for an unlucky football game...
...gambled with a proven success. MacNeil admits to having felt personally "confined" by the old format. Says he: "The half hour had a clear role, but it was always intended as just a foot in the door." Now that the door is open the show must trace a clear path...