Word: sit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems like something out of George Orwell: television sets souped up so they can watch viewers watching them. Last week Nielsen Media Research, purveyor of the make-or-break TV ratings, announced plans to develop just such a gizmo. The "passive people meter," a computerized camera system, would sit atop sets in thousands of households, keeping an eye on every move that viewers made...
...property crimes, domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, homicide and victims' rights. Some offenders do eventually express remorse. Says one Giddings boy, a middle- class 15-year-old from Austin who raped his eight-year-old neighbor: "I realize how society really looks at rape. Sometimes at night I sit up crying. I look back and say that could never have been...
...About 60 Law School students protest the school's absence of Hispanic faculty members. The demonstration occurs exactly one year after members of the Black Law Students Association held a 24-hour sit-in to protest the dearth of Black professors...
...think the campaign had much to do with it, or how the Kennedy School was perceived during the campaign," says Baker Professor of Public Management Herman "Dutch" Leonard, who chaired the review's coordinating committee. "It was just time for the school to sit back and ask ourselves what the mission of the school was and if our curriculum was doing that...
Undergraduates avoid blaming themselves for their failure to be educated. But they must bear much of the responsibility. When asked what he found most surprising about Harvard, a visiting professor from Australia replied: "It's the students. Most of them are rather dull. They sit in the back and don't ask any questions...