Word: vital
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...least equally possible that after receiving tenure a younger scholar may grow comfortable, cease to pursue active scholarship and resist new modes of thinking. There are many good reasons for promoting Faculty members "from within," but doing so cannot guarantee that a department will thereby be made more vital and interesting in the long run. In many tenure-track departments the reverse has in fact happened...
...tells us something about the new world order when the global battles America is fighting are less about the balance of power than about the balance sheet. We gauge our vital interests not by which boundaries we will defend but by which currencies. And the meetings that matter most don't always take place in the soundproof White House Situation Room; some are held in a private dining room at the Jefferson Hotel...
...scholar who shows ever indication of continued intellectual growth over the long term, or the scholar recognized as a mature authority in a given field who resists new modes of working in or thinking about that field. Harvard does boast a number of senior Faculty who continue to be vital and innovative in their teaching and scholarship. Nevertheless, its anomalous and increasingly laughable tenuring procedures also make it a haven for the latter type of scholar described above, a critical mass of whom generally thwart the appointment of the former type. Until this situation changes--a prospect about which...
Japan will have to do better than that. It is vital for Hashimoto & Co. to show other Asian countries that they have the will to confront their financial problems. Otherwise there will be no one left capable of leading Asia out of its economic mess or of sparing the rest of the world similar trouble...
...antagonistic but civil. We also urge Harvard Dining Services to provide paper bags and containers so that students will have the flexibility to eat on the run. Given the almost nonexistent flexibility of the current meal plan, it is heartless to attempt to close this small yet vital loophole in the system...