Word: retainers
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...Harvard Corporation decided to retain the three faculty members, concluding in May that Furry and Kamin were no longer affiliated with the Communist Party and Markham had never been a member...
When University Provost Steven E. Hyman came to Harvard last year, he vowed to work closely with Faust to recruit and retain female faculty. Though he met with the Institute’s dean once last year to discuss the matter, no subsequent meetings have been held this academic year...
...referring to Adams’ pessimistic observation that Harvard “taught little, and that little ill.” Instead, I have to wonder if this ethic of procrastination will be easy to abandon as we grow older. Will our generation of Harvardians retain its slacker ways and persist in its procrastinatory habits? Will little Johnny’s birthday party be organized at the last minute for lack of other motivating interest? Will office presentations be thrown together at lunch and winged just for the thrill of it? Will an all-nighter be necessary to finish that...
...move that shocked and affronted ardent anti-communists, the Corporation announced on May 19 that it would retain all three members on the Faculty. Furry and Kamin, their report concluded, were no longer members of the Communist Party; Markham had never been a member...
...German economy needs all the strong impulses it can get, but analysts and craftsmen doubt that abolishing the Meisterbrief will provide them. Clement wants to do away with the qualification for 62 of the 94 professions that require it. Higher-risk trades such as heating engineering and plumbing would retain the Meisterbrief, but for the rest, 10 years of job experience would allow anyone who had successfully completed an apprenticeship to start their own company. Clement hopes the move, which will have its first reading in the Bundestag in early summer, will raise Germany's low percentage of self-employed...