Word: slips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walter Leonard has allowed major appointments and promotion in associate and assistant deanships to slip by without regard to AA. He has been silent on the controversial non-tenure of Afro-American scholar Ephraim Issac. He has been given credit for increasing the number of Law School blacks (Crimson, Oct. 5, 1976) with no mention of the student activism which initiated and supported increased admissions. Moreover, having gone on record innumerable times criticizing the University's failure to improve the status of women and minorities, he has yet to do anything to turn the trend. Most likely Leondard's office...
...Soviets in a park or on a street, he might have been seen. Said the U.S. official: "He tried to do it the safe way by tossing the packet to them in the dark. He never figured they'd fumble it. The Soviets let an intelligence bonanza slip through their fingers...
...jury's verdict-which casts doubt on all of Bronfman's claims about the kidnaping-may not permit him to slip peacefully into obscurity. Several jurors at trial's end openly charged him with engineering his own abduction. Said one. Mrs. Amelia Dricot, a house wife from Mount Vernon, N.Y.: "I think he planned the whole operation." As early as the first evening of the jury's deliberation, eight jurors voted to acquit the defendants, two wanted to convict, and two remained undecided...
Leapt backwards letting greedy Satan slip...
LISTENING TO Jackson Browne is like bobbing for apples--choice morsels are there, but his peculiar mixture of poignancy and banality often makes his overall message slip away. At their best, his lyrics serve as universal statements about the human condition. But on his fourth and most recent album, The Pretender, Browne loses his impact, lapsing into self-indulgence...