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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, those professors who lose tenure for mental health reasons have a special interest in keeping the situation quiet...

Author: By Caroline T. Nguyen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Losing Tenure: Rare, But Not Impossible | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...sure professors have done "bad" things in the past, but I don't know for sure that no action was taken against them," Wei says. "I certainly see it as possible that the University might want to keep something like that quiet...

Author: By Caroline T. Nguyen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Losing Tenure: Rare, But Not Impossible | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...indeed, the University, sometimes for reasons of privacy and sometimes to avoid negative press, keeps dismissals very quiet...

Author: By Caroline T. Nguyen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Losing Tenure: Rare, But Not Impossible | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...getting paged on a weekend is rare," said Peggy A. McNamara, spokesperson for the HUPD. "I assume it was a quiet weekend...

Author: By Ashley F. Waters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Effects of Alcohol Policy Unclear | 10/29/1997 | See Source »

...have a vocation means to have patience. "It took me 15 years to build a bear," says George of one of his arboreal sculptures. "I won't live long enough to build another bear like that one." Like carpenters and shoemakers, George represents a dying breed of quiet artisanship. And Dave represents the veteran worker who, having devoted himself to perfection on the job, must eventually give way, training his young, flashier female replacement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TAKE THIS JOB AND LOVE IT | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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