Word: severances
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...miles separate advancing U.S. and Soviet troops. U.S. strategic nuclear forces go on alert, but the NSC refuses their field commander's request for tactical nuclear weapons. In the end, a combination of resolve and restraint wins a kind of peace: after the NSC orders air strikes to sever the Soviet supply routes, Muskie and his U.S.S.R. counterpart exchange messages, and they agree to negotiate a pullback...
...prestige, to its reputation as an institution of great learning and to increasing its financial resources. Should this be the main criterion for awarding tenure? Is it not possible to say that a person's teaching abilities are of vital importance to those people who crowd the halls of Sever, Emerson and Jefferson? Consequently, can it not be said that students should and must be involved in the process of awarding tenure? Let us look further for an answer...
...University has the perfect opportunity right now to change its position on the final clubs: it has begun a review of its relationship to outside student organizations, prompted by a recent rash of injuries at a Pi Eta club initiation. Harvard has no excuse not to sever all its ties to the clubs with decisiveness and haste...
Plainly, although Rose is crouched just ten hits from 4,000, only 201 behind Ty Cobb, there is no room for him in Philadelphia any more. One day next month, the Phillies must commit to another $1 million for Rose or sever him at $300,000. While management insists that no decision has been made, Rose simply does not believe that, and he is ready to shop himself around "to any team with a chance to win, because I don't think I could play if there was no chance to win." Or maybe it is time...
...think it's a completely ridiculous idea," says Benatar. "It looks to me like they're trying to re-radicalize Harvard. But they're going to do it at the expense of South African Blacks." She explains that because of Harvard's prestige, other institutions, and even countries might sever ties with the nation. This would lead to an economic depression which would spark a revolution before the Blacks were ready to take control of the government...