Word: snubbings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is no question that the great concentration of able young people are in various area of what we might call social history--so that I think to snub those fields is to miss out on a lot of the best people to get a kind of teaching and research that gets people thinking about connection between social and political," says David Montgomery, a Yale labor historian...
...possible to explain away this snub (Harvard didn't have one scorer in the top 15.), but how then can the coach explain Harvard's first-place finish...
Last month Baker responded to Shamir's latest snub by calling settlements the biggest "obstacle to peace." President Bush followed up by warning that he might withhold $10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees that Israel wants to help absorb Soviet Jews unless Jerusalem agrees to a settlement freeze. As usual, Shamir was unimpressed by the threats. Speaking at the West Bank settlement of Beit Arieh last week, he dismissed any connection to peace talks and vowed that the construction drive "cannot be stopped...
...have said before, this argument is preposterous. Dartmouth College President James O. Freedman '55 was rejected for the presidency. Wellesley College President Nannerl O. Keohane didn't get the job, either. Neither did Rice University President George E. Rupp. Their reputations have not been destroyed by the snub. They still have managed to hold onto gainful employment...
...idea is that you can't break in with these people," he says of the new Harvard party crowd. "Before you could go and talk to anyone. They stick to themselves and they're taking it over for themselves. They definitely snub the regulars and don't want to deal with them," says Stowers, a native of Las Vegas...