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Word: sitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...population desperately needs space and security, HRE is turning University land over to transient strangers. Everyone knows that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences does not have enough space for it teachers to write or teach adequately. There is almost no place where faculty below the associate level can sit in quiet and privacy and think--a process necessary for the writing with which we earn tenure, another fact the University has forgotten. Most of us have less than ideal work environments at home, thanks to the distant, small and decrepit housing forced on us by the yuppification of Harvard...

Author: By M. DAVID Samson, | Title: Hotels | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

Athletes who fell below the Proposition 48 standards--which include minimum scores of 700 on the SAT or 15 on the ACT--were previously eligible for scholarships but were required to sit out their freshman season and retain only three years of eligibility...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: NCAA May Swipe Bids From Weak Conferences | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

...attributing the growing number of women in the courts to traditional ideas about female charity and altruism doesn't sit well with some male attorneys...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: The Second Sex at Middlesex Courthouse | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

Wasn't that a time? Each year of the early 1960s brought new images of heroism and horror as the civil rights movement spread through the South like kudzu. 1960: four Negro students sit in at a Greensboro, N.C., lunch counter. 1961: the Congress of Racial Equality inaugurates its Freedom Rides to integrate Southern bus terminals. 1962: in Oxford, Miss., James Meredith enters Ole Miss, its first black student since Reconstruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fire This Time | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...leave their seats for fear of missing a spectacular Jordan move to tell their grandchildren about. Bulls assistant coach Phil Jackson admits that the Jordan Freeze affects seasoned veterans. "Even I get caught up in Michael's show," he says. "I try not to, but sometimes I just sit back and enjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Leapin' Lizards! Michael Jordan Can't Actually Fly | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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