Word: size
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wilt Chamberlain was, he often evoked a public awe closer to loathing than admiration. "No one roots for Goliath," he lamented to his Los Angeles Lakers teammate Jerry West. The observation was both personally felt and generally interesting in what it says about the way people look at giants. Size (which matters) is an accident of biology, but we tend to treat it as an implicit assault on the averageness of the rest of us--a potential menace, an insulting excess--and there is a universal desire to see the big man fall...
Janitors are now beginning contract negotiations with the University and aim to secure a living wage of at least $10 per hour. Boston University, which has an endowment less than one-twentieth the size of Harvard's, already pays its janitors over $10 per hour. The city of Cambridge passed a living wage ordinance in May, establishing $10 per hour as the minimum wage for all city workers. Harvard will fight the janitors' reasonable demand, and fight hard...
...Looking ahead, I believe that the single most important need of the FAS for the coming decade is to increase the size of the faculty and to provide space for us all to work," he said...
While increasing Faculty size, Knowles said that there will be a special emphasis on building up the science departments...
...athletic talent. The champ eight has four returning varsity rowers, but Wilhelm feels wary about his young team: "inexperience can lead to inconsistency." However, the novice crew was 8 and 2 last year, with talent that bodes well for the future. "It's great to have a regatta this size in our own back yard," says Wilhelm. But as to winning the regatta, he says, "with crew, you never know...