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...result of Government actions. One department chairman recalls that eight of ten people asked to write appraisals of one recent tenure candidate did not reply. What troubles professors and department heads is that the reluctance of faculty members to make appraisals now seems strongest in the cases of the weakest-and potentially most litigious-tenure candidates...
...phone number, then his office number, called back on both and finally decided that the Senator was indeed phoning. Reagan said he had no objection to a three-way debate if Anderson was then a serious candidate. Reagan actually hopes that Carter will be nominated; he considers him the weakest possible opponent...
...worst since early 1975, when the nation's business plummeted 9.1%. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall predicted that unemployment could reach 8.5% early in 1981, much higher than the 7.2% peak that the Administration had originally forecast. Housing continued to be one of the economy's weakest sectors, as new home starts plunged 11% to an annual rate of a meager 920,000 units, the lowest since February 1975. Once again in May, wages and salaries failed to keep pace with inflation...
...developing nations of the Third World that capitalism today is weakest. Most new countries lack an entrepreneurial class, and they usually adopt some form of statism. Often, existing elites in tribes or clans prefer a centralized system that reinforces their own authority...
...level dose of antibiotic. As a result, the wall of the one-celled bug began eroding. That process poses a great danger to the bacterium, which has internal pressures ranging from 25 to 30 atmospheres. Strained by the internal pressure, the wall suddenly ruptured at its weakest point, and the bacterium exploded...