Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presence is the protection of the mediocre along with the talented. Furthermore, union presence often creates an adversary situation between faculty and administration. Says Cal State's Dumke: "Under collective bargaining, working together as a community of scholars is just not possible." San Francisco State Biology Professor Lawrence Swan notes, "I see my job as teaching and research and scholarship. I try to shy away from politics...
...Still, Swan voted for the C.F.A. because he believes conditions had made unionization inevitable...
...level institutions, where faculty has power over tenure and academic standards, unions have held almost no appeal. There is also, both inside and outside academia, a good deal of ambiguity about whether professors should organize or go on strike. Says Swan: "There's nothing lower than a faculty member who refuses to teach...
Wrestling may not be as appealing to the eye as Swan Lake, but Phills claims that the sport "can be very attractive if one develops...
Rubik also has come out with Son of Cube, a three-dimensional twister called the Magic Snake, which can assume the shape of a swan, saxophone or steamroller. F.A.O. Schwarz, New York City's premier toy store, sold out its initial shipment of 864 Snakes in a week. Copy-cubers have devised multicolored variations of Rubik's baffler in the shape of pyramids, octagons and cylinders. A new puzzle marketed in France called the Tower of Babel has sold 600,000 copies in three months at a price of about...