Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Behalf of the Humanities" serves as both a chastisement of humanities faculties for allowing standards to slip, and a series of recommendations for coping with economic pressures. He calls for organization of interdisciplinary programs which place language in a historical, philosophical or sociological context--"Let the curriculum follow the mind, not restrain it." Clearly Giamatti feels most comfortable when discussing his own field (before assuming Yale's presidency in 1978, he was Whitney professor of English and comparative literature...
Gregg was uncertain about the move at first ("Because of what we saw at Nationals last year, I was a little leery of the program here"), but Dorrance wasn't about to let her slip away. "We wanted her," he says, "so we went after her, and now we're real lucky to have...
...political status. Sensing the country's conservative mood, he called the bill an intrusion of big government and vetoed it. But 70 per cent of the voters support the bill, and King can ill afford to lose votes. Currently his popularity runs about 10 per cent: it can only slip further because of the veto. He is likely to lose even more credibility if the legislature overrides his veto-- as the House already has and as the Senate may well do today...
...carry an interest rate equal to 70% of the prevailing one-year Treasury-bill rate at the time the customer makes his deposit. Yet no sooner did the certificates become available than interest rates on one-year Treasury bills, as well as on other short-term investments, began to slip sharply and erode their appeal. Last week depositors could get a maximum tax-free yield of only 10.77% on All Savers, which is below the 12.61% paid in early October or the 11.75% to 13.75% that longer-term tax-free municipal bonds now offer...
...recent years, the Institute has been the subject of intense speculation in newspapers and among researchers. Prior to Hughes' death in 1976, almost nothing was known about it. Since then, however, the veil of mystery has begun to slip. It appears that in the 1950's, Hughes conceived the idea of a center for medical research where elite researchers could gather to pursue medical advances. He later revised his plan and decided to finance individual researchers already affiliated with universities. In this manner, funds from the Hughes Institute could go directly to research instead of building and equipment maintenance...