Word: slight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...August of 1973 in California was glorious. Each morning, seduced from official papers, I sat on the veranda behind my office at the Western White House in San Clemente and watched as the sun burned the fog off the ocean. Occasionally I saw a slight, stoop-shouldered figure amble along the edge of the cliff beyond which lay only the beach and the Pacific. In that tranquil setting Richard Nixon was enduring the long final torment of his political career. Outside of the seclusion of San Clemente, the country buzzed with speculation about whether he would survive as President...
According to Harvard's General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, the similarities between the contracts was primarily because they were negotiated under similar circumstances at about the same time. But he adds despite slight differences in working conditions and pay, it makes sense to negotiate with all the unions in the same...
Harved currently trials Yale (10-8-1) ECAC'S and Corneti (9-8-1) in the Ivy Division with on 8-8-2 ECAC record. The levy Discussion winner is guaranteed not only a playoff berth, but also home ice in the first round. There is a slight chance that Harvard could make the playoff without winning the division-by finishing in the top eight over all Either way, the icemen must sweep their final three games...
Finally, Molloy maps out a role for executive wives, so that they too can live for success, albeit their husband's. Molloy regales the reader with parables of careers fallen victim to poor marriages, later-day. Eves whose slight inebriations at social functions and general lower-class habits have expelled their husbands from their professional paradises. His tone concerning one wife who publicly gulped a martini is solemn: "It so happened that his wife was a surgeon, and may have had a very good reason for wanting that martini, but it killed his career nevertheless...
...academic powerhouse of nine branches, including Berkeley and U.C.L.A., Cal State evolved as a collection of teacher colleges in such cities as San Jose, Chico and Fresno. Partly because it emphasizes teaching instead of research, Cal State has been treated as a second-class organization. Money and a slight inferiority complex have not been its only problems. At a time when job security is poor and tenure is an impossible dream to many young academics all over the country...