Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty has passed a resolution of non-support for the trustees' action. They disputed the procedure employed by the board to get rid of the president," Hall said in a Globe interview...
...study failed to examine departments' reluctance to hire young scholars--a practice that has cost many promising academics tenured positions here and that has unquestionably helped keep the number of minorities and women on the Faculty low. Until departments rid themselves of this aversion to youth, all scholars--but especially women and minorities--will find it difficult to work their way up to a tenured professorship here. The earlier Harvard catches the top minority and women scholars, the more likely they will remain here...
...peace. Our armed forces are integrating, and a single army is being formed. The dissident elements scattered throughout the country are being rounded up. In the public sector, we were naturally concerned that there was racial imbalance in the system. We have been advancing Africans, but not by getting rid of whites. We still have urgent problems - resettling people displaced by the war, reconstructing ruined schools, hospitals and roads. Of course, we have to achieve much more before the situation is as it should...
...political process has been very much overreformed," Ernest R. May, professor of History, argues. "The effort to get rid of corrupt influence was carried so far that it has prevented people who really care about politics from having any voice. People used to be able to have a greater voice by their contributions of time, effort, money and ideas." For better or for worse, the parties and the professionals have lost their grip: the choice, says Harvey C. Mansfield '53, professor of Government, "has gotten out of the hands of responsible characters...
...more ways than the 17th floor," exults Violinist Sandor Balint. The management is just as happy. "I'm elated," says Bliss. The real hero is Federal Mediator Wayne Horvitz, who persuaded both sides to lay aside their almost pathological hostilities. Says he: "They got rid of all that nonsense in the last three days and stopped shouting at each other...