Word: trend
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Professors do not believe that cases like Gilbert and Penhoet represent a trend for professors leaving academics to join business. Most professors say they want to maintain a happy medium between both world. And graduate students and post-docs faced with the decision feel they are now presented with more attractive offers than ever before...
...would also argue that if we're going to reverse the nuclear arms race, the general trend of more and more and more, the technological push, the technological imperative, what we need to do is begin to dismantle a part of the structure that has propelled the nuclear arms race in the post-war period, and that is what we have to begin to dismantle. Let's call it the American dominance of NATO. I think that West Germany, for example, has to be encouraged in its reorientation of the expansion of its interests towards the East, towards the Soviet...
Controversy has brewed for years on campus over the propriety of various Harvard investments, expecially those in companies doing business in South Africa, marketing infant formula in the third world, and those relying extensively on nuclear power. Following a nationwide trend toward greater concern over nuclear weapons. University officials took a tentative first step in 1982 toward reevaluating another class of investments: those in firms helping build nuclear weapons...
Selection for Radcliffe's lot a chapter are done similarly, but it has a higher final acceptance rate, 15 percent, than its male counterpart. Sasan Bush '55, chairman of lota's Committee on Undergraduate. Eligibility said yesterday. Bush added that she found a "small trend towards more Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappas moving towards the science...
...Princeton case follows this trend. Notes Claire Guthrie, assistant general counsel of the American Council on Education: "This woman is not concerned with establishing some profound legal principle. She knows jobs are tough to get out there, and that when you have a mark against you, it is all that much tougher. She's trying to protect herself." But if Gabrielle Napolitano succeeds in reversing the university's action, the danger is that she may establish a legal precedent, one that could erode the right of Princeton and other private universities to act as the sole judge...