Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First lesson, pressure for governing bodies that reflect the diversity of the people your organization serves. For 350 years Harvard has had only white, gentile men run its University, except for two white, male Jews who have served on the seven-man governing corporation...
Many Middle Eastern studies centers reflect the factionalization and suspicion endemic to the region they study. As battle lines have been drawn around the director of Harvard's center, however, observers say rivalries there have heated up, possibly becoming entrenched enough to handicap the Center in the future...
...union's strong demands reflect "a nationwide grass roots labor movement to fight concessions by the workers," says Bozzotto. "The labor movement has to be strengthened in response to the rampant lay-offs across the country," he adds. "Concessions won't save jobs anymore...
Some say that recent tenure denials to candidates who would traditionally have received lifetime appointments reflect some senior faculty members' insistence on stricter standards for junior faculty promotion...
...within which as a Reform rabbi I include myself, would come at the problem somewhat differently. Holding that Jewish legal tradition represents a compendium of each generation's best efforts to understand and fulfill God's will, it is possible to believe that contemporary understandings may in some instances reflect a moral or ethical perspective more relevant than that of an older world view. For me, the image of the Creator which I believe is present in each person I deal with takes precedence over the legal strictures. I cannot bring myself to believe that God abhors, a priori, some...