Word: tumults
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Last week Pavarotti was back at the San Francisco Opera, starring in the season's opening production, Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda. Once more there was drama and tumult. Profound tremors again swept through the house. But the intervening decade had made an enormous difference. This time Pavarotti himself was the earthquake...
EVEN MORE to the point, the administration of Derek Bok--the man who, more than anyone else, profited from the strike and the ensuing tumult that forced Pusey's early retirement--has shown a familiar contempt for the views of students and junior faculty. When Bok and his Corporation seek to ignore the ethical dimensions of corporate responsibility, when they refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of students' calls for a real hand in determining Harvard's investment policy, or when Bok and Dean Rosovsky smugly dismiss students' attempts to gain a real say in the formulation of their own curriculum...
...sooner was she installed at No. 10 Downing Street-after a couple of good nights' sleep to recover from the nonstop campaign and the tumult of the election -than Thatcher was on the move on several fronts at once. Before the week was out, she seemed to have gone far toward countering some of the misgivings about her inexperience, and allaying some of the fears about a national lurch to the right, at least too far to the right...
EVEN MORE TO THE POINT, the administration of Derek Bok--the man who, more than anyone else, profited from the strike and the ensuing tumult that forced Pusey's early retirement--has shown a familiar contempt for the views of students and junior faculty. When Bok and his Corporation seek to ignore the ethical dimensions of corporate responsibility, when they refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of students' calls for a real hand in determining Harvard's investment policy, or when Bok and Dean Rovosky smugly dismiss students' attempts to gain a real say in the formulation of their own curriculum...
...kind to Mike because he kept his word to New York in getting federal loan guarantees through. But he may have reached battle fatigue in the economy, which frankly is tumultuous. In that tumult I don't know if Mike is the tough manager that we need...