Word: setups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student agitators. The upheaval soon spread across much of the country, fired by the deep discontent that permeates France's system of higher education. Compared with the U.S., few youths in France get to universities at all, and those who do find themselves immersed in a selerotic setup that educators insist was out of date in Napoleon's time...
...deans, and administrative boards of the schools and different departments." In financial matters, the Administration formulates budgets and legislation while the Corporation approves them; on educational policy; the Faculty and Administration interchange in the initiating and ratifying roles; on permanent academic appointments, the departments make recommendations and the Administration setup ad hoc committees to ratify the appointments. In all cases, a system of restraints exists between the Administration and Faculty oligarchies on matters of initiation and ratification. The Corporation, despite its mythical reputation as an inconsiderate stumbling tyrant, never takes the initiative even in financial matters, but merely acts...
This was a setup," Capote believes. The central factor of what happens is that, after the assassination, this assassin rushes out of the rooming house and what does he do? He does a very amazing, unusual thing. He takes a suitcase and very carefully props it up in front of a store. And in this suitcase there is a shotgun, very carefully left. And what is on it is Mr. James Earl Ray's fingerprints...
...think it could get them. In the case of the CEP--which has shown a willingness to initiate changes--student voting would not make much difference. But in the case of the Committee on Houses, which has often been insensitive to the widespread dissatisfaction with Harvard's social setup, non-voting student seats might not be enough...
...which this government is run and the manner in which we reach our decisions." Like many Britons, Brown feels that Wilson has arrogated too much power to himself, and that his one-man leadership is turning Britain's parliamentary system into a sort of U.S.-style presidential setup...