Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After years of quiet experience a group of Black faculty and administrators suddenly became aggressive last year, focusing a harsh spotlight on Harvard's minority hiring record. And while the activists have taken care to stress the cooperative facets of their push for affirmative action, the stridency of their statement this year has betrayed a certain impatience with some of their official colleagues...
Little short of a revelation will startle the quiet scholars who inhabit Andover Hall, but this summer came pretty close. The Harvard Divinity School is in the midst of an unprecedented turnover in Faculty, and now is looking for seven full-time professors...
Little short of a revelation will startle the quiet scholars who inhabit Andover Hall, but this summer came pretty close. The Harvard Divinity School is in the midst of an unprecedented turnover in Faculty, and now is looking for seven full-time professors...
Confusing as the situation appeared to be, U.S.-Nicaraguan relations had indeed entered a new and intriguing phase. Neither the Administration nor the Sandinistas have yet revealed any concessions in their quiet discussions. The chance that the two countries will resolve their differences any time soon remains, as a U.S. official put it, "slim." Nonetheless, both the Administration and the Sandinistas are working hard to demonstrate their seriousness and flexibility in the closed-door conversations. In particular, the U.S. is challenging the Sandinistas to come to terms before the U.S. presidential election. In Washington, State Department officials were exuding confidence...
...ruled his tiny state for 46 years. But when Prince Franz Josef II, 78, stepped down this week the citizens of Liechtenstein (pop. 26,500) were assured that the regal line would be unbroken. In a quiet ceremony marked by a church service and the signing of documents, Franz Josef handed over the regency to his popular-and fervently modern-eldest son, Prince Hans Adam, 39. The Swiss-educated Hans, who for years has managed the family fortune, including an extensive art collection and real estate holdings, believes royalty still has a vital role. "The President of the United States...