Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...results of an ongoing review of Harvard's troubled Buildings & Grounds (B & G) department began to come in as a committee recommended that the responsibility for maintenance and supervision of facilities shift to the faculties. The recommendation comes in the wake of widespread criticism of B & G's services and efficiency...
Doctoral programs expanded at a fierce pace in the wake of the baby boom of the '50s and '60s. While only 107 institutions granted doctorates in 1940, 326 award them today. Some 30,000 new Ph.D.s graduate each year, but only a projected 100,000 academic positions will be available from...
...obviously wounds him, and he takes pains to deny it. "The house is so big," he says, "that it doesn't lend itself to a family feeling. But I think we perhaps misjudged the extent of feelings. For months I didn't sleep at night. I would wake up and think, 'What did I do wrong today?' " Now, he says, "I would try to settle a dispute before it gets to the confrontation point. But there's very little I would have done differently...
...only legitimate sensitive material but incompetence, wrong judgments and ethical transgressions. It is no wonder that in democracies as well as in tyrannies, government tends to expand its capacity to hoard information. The U.S., to be sure, took steps to check and curtail this federal capacity in the wake of the excesses surrounding the Viet Nam War, the Watergate scandals and some mischief credited to the CIA and FBI in recent decades. The Government has nonetheless already accumulated a good deal of momentum toward a yet greater capacity for keeping the public in the dark: in an executive order last...
...have my own Reading Period anxieties," confesses Thomas A. Dingman '67, assistant dean of the College and Leverett House senior tutor. "I always begin to dream about being unprepared for an exam. I wake up in a cold sweat. And I haven't been a student for a number of years--I graduated...