Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside committee has been meeting with the English Department for the past year to speed up Harvard's notoriously slow tenure process and to help the tradition-bound department examine its strengths and weaknesses...
Essentially the conflict was one of whose right it was to determine the morality of college students--the College's or the students' themselves. And in the process of decrying the proposed tightening of existing parietal rules, the class of 1964 entered the fringe of what would become the 1960s sexual revolution...
...process has continued during Deng Xiaoping's decade of pragmatic reform. In 1981 all P.L.A. members were required to take a special pledge of loyalty to the party, the government and Deng's modernization program. To save money and to lessen tensions with the Soviet Union, the P.L.A. was trimmed from a peak strength of 4.5 million to its present level of 3.2 million. The increasing prosperity of farm life means that the army has been forced to enlist more urban youth, who are more inclined to question orders. Despite such lures as family benefits and monthly bonuses, local officials...
...other liberals who were the true believers in his reform program. And this, for China, could be the tragic Act III of its great political drama: by siding with Li's hard-liners, Deng is effectively repudiating his great dreams for the country, tarnishing his own reputation in the process...
...Wright, the outcome was predictable, but the collapse of yet another Democratic leader was sudden and unexpected. Barely had Wright's lawyer, Stephen Susman, begun his opening statement to the House ethics committee last week, pleading that even a dead man deserves due process, when all parties seemed to be looking for a way out of the spectacle of a Speaker of the House of Representatives going on trial...