Word: perish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because appointment decisions deemphasize classroom teaching, graduate students or assistant professors have little incentive to pay attention to their teaching, and the atmosphere of 'publish or perish' is perpetuated through the ranks. Asked at the meeting last April if he knew of any measures to encourage better teaching, Bok paused, thought a while, and replied, "That's very hard. I welcome any help you can offer...
...wildly, forming a growing mass or tumor that expands into healthy tissue and competes with normal cells for nutrition. Not content with wreaking local damage, the burgeoning tumor sends out groups of malevolent cells, like amphibious invasion forces, into the bloodstream, which carries them all over the body. Some perish on their mission. But here and there, many of these mobile cells establish beachheads on healthy tissue and begin dividing, forming new tumors. Eventually the marauding cells infiltrate, starve and destroy vital organs, incapacitating and usually bringing death to their unwilling host. Cancer has claimed another victim...
Publish and Perish...