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While the current plan includes the tenure of a joint post in women's studies and another field, the committee has not been given any additional tenure positions. Instead it is to draw on the faculty of other departments. This set-up is problematic because of the tenuous status of junior faculty at Harvard--the very faculty who are likely to teach courses within the field...
...documentary history of the brothers, and the pair released EB '84, an album that brought them smartly up to date. Perhaps because their rift had been so long and so deep, or maybe just because rock exists in a state of perpetual flux, the reunion had a tentative, tenuous quality, as if the brothers were not only testing audiences but trying each other on for size. No small part of the emotional weight of their new album Born Yesterday comes from the sense that matters have been settled. The Everlys are back. They are back to stay. Back...
Argentina has made dramatic progress in quenching a raging inflation rate that exceeded 1000% in mid-1985. The government, which imposed wage and price controls last year, expects inflation to be just 28% for all of 1986. But like that of the other debtors, Argentina's improvement is tenuous. One potential threat is the fall in the price of corn, wheat and other grains, which provide about 45% of Argentina's export earnings...
...church, broadcast the names of prominent Marcos officials who, emboldened by Ramos and Enrile, announced their resignations. Among them: Postmaster General Rogelio Golez and General Ramon Farolan, the Philippine Customs Commissioner. "I don't think the government can function," said one high-ranking Marcos aide. "It's a very tenuous situation...
...last week, a top CIA official, Robert M. Gates, tried to salvage his agency's tenuous connections with academia after the Harvard controversy received national attention. But Gates' much-publicized policy speech at the Kennedy School brushed over the sensitive issue of academic freedom, allowing disclosure of funding in some limited cases but holding fast to the CIA's right of review and ultimate control of scholars' work...