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...leave in those areas and disciplines which do not have access to outside research funds and in which leave is decisive to research and writing at a particular stage in the career of a tenure member of the faculty. The University should make an effort in this way to redress in part the vast imbalance in the availability of outside research funds among fields...
Only obliquely does the Committee suggest the direction in which Harvard should be channeling its resources. One significant recommendation asks the University to budget money "to redress in part the vast imbalance in the availability of outside research funds." "I wouldn't say we should be simply counter-cyclical," Dunlop said Monday, but clearly this clause is an attempt to protect the Humanities at a time when federal funds and foundation money are flowing into the Natural and Social Sciences. "We cannot change the world in five seconds," Dunlop said, "but we may set precedents which others will choose...
...uncomfortable conscience. I am filled with shame and loathing for my race. My heart grieves for his family and friends who must abruptly substitute memories for his warm reality. My mind cries out to know how I, one single me, insulated in my white suburb, can redress the ancient wrongs...
...reports a 35% total increase during the 1960s, many experts argue that this figure overlooks population growth, improved police statistics and the new willingness of the poor to report crimes that used to go unrecorded. On the whole, Americans are now more apt to settle their arguments through legal redress, or at least nonviolent cunning, rather than with fists, knives and guns. Organized crime has shifted from blatant violence to financial infighting; today's juvenile gangs are more talkers than fighters; very few labor-dispute slayings have occurred since the 1950s...
Class actions provide a way for the claims of many individuals to be settled at one time, eliminating repetitious litigation and providing an economical way to obtain redress since the legal fees can be taken from the total damages awarded. Such important cases as the school-desegregating Brown v. Board of Education and the one-man one-vote Reynolds v. Sims were both class actions. And the practice is now likely to grow more common. The reason is a 2-to-l decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City on what may be the largest class...