Word: seek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University official do the job is preferable to having an anonymous committee make the decision. But President Rudenstine is an expert in Renaissance literature, and he is responsible for too many other activities to be reasonably expected to devote adequate attention to the scores of candidates every year who seek tenure in fields unrelated to his own. The responsibility of tenure decisions should be delegated to officials who can devote greater effort and expertise and who will be held accountable for their rulings. Otherwise, the department might as well have the final...
...events of April 1969 had an effect on the careers of the students who watched them happen, it seems to have sent many of them into academia. From these positions, many say they seek to pre-empt the communication breakdown that made students think a takeover was necessary...
Pampered, patronized and paternally cherished, such a student receives no opportunity to develop a conception of any reality outside of one solely populated by self-validating reflections. Even socially, she noted, students here seek administrative ego-support, referencing one student's now-famous appeal to the Dean of Students, published in The New York Times, to ban homework on the weekends. (The Crimson, you may recall, proclaimed earlier this semester that no student should have to do homework on a Friday night...
Beijing desperately wants to change that perception, not because China's leaders have an enemy in their sights but because they seek the kind of credibility that a truly modern military brings. Capitol Hill rhetoric aside, China doesn't covet nuclear missiles so it can lob them at Los Angeles. It wants them so that it can be a legitimate player on the international stage, a nation fully in control of its own military destiny. So, as its entrepreneurs have embraced StarTacs and Yahoo!, Beijing's generals now want to trade their antique weaponry and cold war tactics...
...daughter to fall into the darkness. On a seemingly innocent cruise with his half brother, they are beset by murderous demons out of the brother's shady past and become castaways on a deserted island--their resources (and survivalist skills) scant, the knowledge that the criminals must seek them out certain. The mood shift is wrenching--this is almost a self-contained second movie. But it's a pretty good one also, resolving as it does the relationship between adults and child and also giving Mastrantonio the chance to let some cracks in her composure begin to show. The movie...