Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University, along with the rest of American higher education, eventually has to realize that a professor's quality can't be measured in published pages alone. Harvard's tenure system must reward truly good teachers, not just pay lip service to the second half of their standard of "leading scholar/teacher available in the field." The University's goal should be to create a diverse Faculty of competent teachers and scholars. Until they do, it is undergraduate education that will continue to pay the price...
Those reading lists, Cole says, have expanded from a small and standard list of "Great Books" to focus more on primary sources. With this, she says, the library's collections have expanded...
...have nonetheless waged a successful consciousness-raising campaign on campus. Since the announcement by the city of Cambridge that $10 per hour is the "living wage" necessary to survive in the community, the labor group has made it their number one priority to have Harvard adopt the same standard for its own employees...
...book, The Person Who Changed My Life: Prominent Americans Recall Their Mentors, at Le Cirque 2000, where she posed for pictures in a small room with Tony Bennett, shoe mogul Kenneth Cole and arts maven Kitty Carlisle Hart, among other luminaries. She then emerged to make a few standard-issue remarks and then--poof!--disappeared, even though she had a crowd of People Who Need No Introduction hoping for some quality time with her. Hey, there's Stanley Tucci, there's Doris Kearns Goodwin, Harry Belafonte, Bob Morgenthau. Warm and funny with her inner circle, she is as eager...
...campaign issue. The company has denied any illegal behavior and notes that as one of Indonesia largest taxpayers, "it would be unusual if [we] did not maintain a close business relationship with the government of Indonesia and its officials, including then President Suharto." Fair enough, but in April, Standard & Poor's lowered its rating on $3.3 billion worth of Freeport debt and preferred stock, citing the firm's ties to Suharto and the possibility it could face "retribution [and] reprisals...