Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Second, every lifetime post on the Harvard faculty, at least within Arts and Sciences, tends to be the occasion for a national, even international, search. Without a tenure track system, as exists at most universities, the vast majority of junior people have little choice but to emigrate. At the second-tier state university where I teach, the question generally asked about an assistant professor is: "Has he/she published enough to be a reasonable candidate for tenure?" At Harvard, and the handful of similar schools around the country, the question is: "Is this person the very finest we can get from...
...that the embarassingly low number of minority professors reflects the small pool of minority Ph.D. candidates, the report provides a firm if depressing answer. While Harvard has not hired minorities, in most cases it has not even sought them out. In five departments reviewed in the report, 10 separate searches last year looked over 750 applicants--and like the year before only four were minorities. Eight years ago, a study known as the Whitla report revealed that the names of minority candidates that showed up on other major universities' search lists were absent from Harvard...
...morale, just as valuable for Disney in the long run are new animated features whose characters can inspire fresh theme-park attractions and licensed products. Disney has high hopes for this summer's combination live-action and animated feature, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the story of Roger's search for the culprit who set him up for a murder rap. Even with Steven Spielberg producing it, the film is a major gamble. Its cost is rumored to be $38 million or more, which has inspired ominous comparisons with Howard the Duck, a notorious $35 million quacker made by Universal. Says...
...President-elect James McMahon was instrumental in what Beckett calls the Dins' "search for new sources." Having studied the South African singing group Ladysmith Black Mombazo, McMahon arranged both the dance and the music for a risky version of "You Can Call Me Al," soloed by Larry "Wheel of Fortune" Witdorchic. McMahon's fused all of Ladysmith's guttural African sounds, along with Paul Simon's quiet New York nasality, into one arrangement...
...whipped out a gun, led me into an alley, and watched me search frantically through my wallet. I knew I had less than $10, and I knew that muggers have a tendency to get angry when their victims have little to offer them. I was so nervous that I dropped my I.D. card and some pieces of scrap paper; he politely bent down and picked them up for me. But despite my mugger's charm and chivalry--it was the first time I was ever addressed as "ma'am"--I could not help fearing the worst: assault, rape, death...