Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today's appointment ends rampant speculation among Faculty members as to the identity of the new dean. Speculation had centered on Rosovsky from the outset of the search, and his chances continually improved as alternatives were discarded for one reason or another...
Since the city does not have a spring primary to weed out the weaker candidates, the November ballot will be a lengthy one. With no lack of issues and aspiring office-seekers to exploit them, political controversy and confusion will be rampant in Cambridge this summer...
...exact sciences British achievements remain staggering. But in the humanities, if you ask where the great philosophical movement is, there is only a long silence. It is an awfully dead period. There have been 40 years of restoring order, sweeping and tidying up what had been all the rampant, unkempt, even outdated collections of philosophical theories. Now everything is clean, in perfect order and ready for bold new departures. But nothing has happened, so everyone goes on polishing...
...must account for the conditions that Harvard's once dominant political passions changed. Recent Harvard classes haven't been as alienated as the people who lived through the University Hall Bust and Kent-Cambodia strike. Pre-meds are a flourishing sub-species and law school admissions preoccupy everyone else. Rampant pre-professionalism makes a quiet student body. But though Sigma Alpha Epsilon is staging a comeback here, parietals will never be popular again. Official university involvement in private College life will be minimal, and Bok's committee of House masters studying sex will be a minor embarassment unless the president...
...answer to the rampant violence is to place guards in the schools. New York City is training 1,200 security guards for its 95 high schools. Chicago has increased its guard force of off-duty policemen from 200 to 490 in the past three years. It now assigns up to eight men to each school, where they inspect locks on doors and check student identification cards, which bear not only the student's photograph and class schedule but are color coded to show his lunch hour. As a result, Chicago has reported an 11% drop in assaults. Philadelphia...