Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was ever a campus version of a "career politician," Evan J. Mandery '89 would probably fit the bill better than anyone else. In his four years on the Undergraduate Council, Mandery chaired two committees, served as parliamentarian, chair and, this year, as the body's unofficial elder statesman...
...been less than faithful to its primary goal of creating adversarial voices to spur each department to action. Instead, the Executive Committee of the FAS has proposed that the department chairs be responsible for the affirmative action duties on top of their already heavy administrative loads. Under this version, there would be little guarantee that departments with bad hiring records would improve their practices...
...weakened version of the affirmative action report is not only an attempt to lessen the non-administrative faculty voice, but also a direct slap in the face to a substantial group of students who have been committed to forcing FAS and the University to increase its minority hiring...
Other factors contributed to the calm. When troops first appeared in Beijing's suburbs, they were met by crowds of citizens who peacefully blocked their path -- a Chinese version of "flower power." According to some Western analysts, the army leaders were made hesitant by the ambiguity of their situation. For example, the capital's hard-line mayor and party secretary passed on the martial-law order to the Beijing military command but without instructions as to when and how force was to be used...
...Rose was a small polygon-shaped theater, just 43 ft. in diameter, with plaster walls and a thatched roof. Viewers sat in tiered galleries or stood in a pit in front of the stage. Among the rubble was a layer of hazelnut shells, possibly the medieval audience's version of popcorn...