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Even if the University won its shortterm battle for extra time to review the nominations, its real fight would just be beginning. To keep the properties off the register in the words of city historical society director Charles Sullivan, "sooner or later they [Harvard] will be placed in the position of arguing that parts of the campus are not historic...
...kind of tenure system and keep a good rotating junior faculty. The rotating junior faculty refreshes the system. But if tenure were somehow or other to be given to all these wonderful young people they would cease to be junior faculty and become part of the system. The fairly shortterm rotation is good for the institution and for the education and also isn't bad for their careers. It's better to be told you're not going to be kept on permanently within a short period, rather than being kept hanging on year after year...
PUMA members charge that both the wording and the enforcement of most prostitution laws are sexist, prohibiting women but not men from selling their bodies. Also, union members assert that police often arrest prostitutes while letting the customer go free. Members differ in their positions on shortterm legal reforms, but the group is adamant in its demand for ultimate decriminalization. It supports decriminalization as opposed to legalization because the former would eliminate legal hassles, while legalization might entail residual government restrictions...
...time of maximum accumulation it is estimated that nearly 30 per cent of the vehicles are illegally parked. The underlying cause of illegal and overtime parking is apparent space shortage. The relatively high turnover of illegal spaces in Harvard Square indicates that most of the need is for shortterm spaces. Illegal parking on streets is not only disruptive of vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian flow but to many it is a source of visual blight...
...year, $155 million appropriation to CPB. Charging CPB had become "the center of power and the focal point of control for the entire public broadcasting system," Nixon proposed instead local grants totalling $45 million over one year. Executives along the public network knew that the combination of meager, shortterm funding and wide dispersion of funds was the kiss of death for quality national programming...