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Other colleges have attempted to combat professors and their spouses' reluctance to uproot their families by creating jobs for spouses, Fisher said, but Harvard does not have such a policy...
...Bantustans (remote lands allocated to implement a separate self-governing program for Black ethnic groups to show that apartheid allowed races their "individual freedom") as countries similar to France and Germany. In reality, Bantustans were poverty-stricken regions that provided the apartheid government a legitimate reason to uproot people from their homes...
...name in 1998, performing on the sacred grounds of Koshien, the Yankee Stadium of Japan, in the National High School Baseball Championship. The series is a national obsession, played in front of sell-out crowds and attracting more TV viewers every summer than any other sporting event. Families uproot themselves so their sons might play for a school with a chance of getting to Koshien; those who make it often scoop up dirt from the field as a souvenir...
...just like an antibiotech pamphlet. Your reporting of a Food and Drug Administration public hearing on biotechnology quoted no government scientists or university experts who discussed the safety of the technology. What's most appalling, though, is that you ended your piece with a warning that food producers might uproot an industry that could help feed the world if they overreact to "fears fanned by well-fed consumers." Articles headlined "Who's Afraid of Frankenfood?" serve only to fan those fears. C. MANLY MOLPUS PRESIDENT AND CEO Grocery Manufacturers of America Washington...
There's a downside to such actions, however. By overreacting to fears fanned by well-fed consumers in the industrialized world, food producers might uproot an industry that could someday provide billions of people in the rest of the world with crops they desperately need...