Word: quashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Expos program's hopelessly misguided four-year rule, which Marius introduced in 1989 without a grandfather clause, resulted from his desire to quash dissent on the faculty. Other teaching positions at Harvard, including junior faculty appointments, carry term limits, but few are so rigid. Most preceptor positions in foreign language and math programs last eight years; stellar teachers have the opportunity to remain at Harvard much longer, with periodic reviews...
Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze was under fire on all sides. Only after he threatened to resign did parliament give him emergency powers to quash armed rebellions. Last weekend he was besieged by Abkhazian separatists battling to gain control of their capital...
...harboring the impression that the Time & Life Building serves as this self-confessed workaholic's home away from home. We would like to quash that persistent rumor once and for all. We really would. It's just that we have never seen Chua-Eoan's apartment, and some of us are beginning to suspect that he may never have laid eyes on it either. Howard has been sighted on every floor of the building except the lobby. That leaves one inescapable conclusion. "When Howard talks about commuting," says International senior editor John Saar, "he means getting on the elevator...
...program and--at least professedly--in its hiring policies. We have the tools to use our diversity as an intellectual community should. Our articulate, outspoken student body churns out letters and articles prolifically and engages in myriafd dining hall table conversations. Our administration, unlike Penn's, is reluctant to quash free expression, no matter who construes it as offensive...
...Employees of the University Health Services clinical laboratory say their UHS human resources coordinator, Karen G. Fischer, has long worked with laboratory manager Barbara Skane to quash employee complaints about everything from overtime to alleged improper packaging of lab specimens...