Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chandra Sharma plays Sweet Sixteen with feeling. Throughout the film, her face is the portrait of wanness and innocence. But in the end, Sweet Sixteen is broken. Drug dealer and pimp Baba (Nana Patekar) beguiles her into a realization of sexuality, though he treats the process as unemotionally as if her were training colts. But what can you expect from a man who decides to whip his pusher in front of a Western journalist who has been interviewing him? Patekar's Baba is fierce and unpleasant, cold and calculating in a way that sends proverbial tingles over the spine...
...administrators say the system that has replaced it, which grants each department a certain number of Full Time Equivalents or FTEs, is designed to introduce flexibility and consistency into the faculty appointments process. Perhaps the most important change is that when junior faculty members come up for tenure, there does not have to be a senior-level vacancy for the scholars to be considered for lifetime posts...
...faculty as a whole are still in the process of understanding everything about it," says Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David R. Pilbeam. Pilbeam estimates that it will be at least five years before the system's effects can be assessed...
...mistake--made in the wake of their convention with Dukakis ahead in the polls--was to believe that they could win without tapping into the disenfranchised elements of the silent electorate. Millions of Americans feel that there was little difference between the two candidates or parties, and the political process has no relevancy to their lives...
...union and the University cannot agree on key contract points, the process coud drag on for more than a year, and may even result in a strike, according to labor experts. Furthermore, workers could petition the National Labor Relations Board after one year to decertify the union if a contract is not reached...