Word: weed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ryan said that although the interviews are "thorough" in order to "weed out the weirdos," he was sure that they are much less painful than Harvard admission interviews...
...does a good job walking the tightrope of an innovative school system and a conservative backlash," observes one parent. Says Barker: "I'm a believer in basic skills, but I want to do it in a humanitarian environment." Discipline is fairly loose. Barker downplays such issues as drugs (ditch weed, the crude local variety of marijuana, is common), discipline, smoking and leaving school without permission. "We have a lot of people coming and going," admits Barker. "Keeping them in school is not one of our high priorities...
There remains, Kuechenmeister admits, a weed in his garden of pleasures. "Prices and salaries keep going up, but pensions don't," he observes. "I'm a little worried, but there's nothing I can do about it." One impractical dream: "If I only knew we were going to die at 70, say, we could spend all we have in the years that are left...
...able to see clearly and react quickly." Letteri, on the other hand, wants a guarantee that officers who fail the exams will be allowed to remain in the force on light duty. Otherwise the department could use the physicals as an excuse to weed out the uncooperative officers: "You're bound to fail one sooner or later," he says. But such a guarantee, which would have been simple in the days when the University police were little more than security guards, will not wash in an era when they are trying to be "real policemen." "We just can't justify...
...dispute over the scope of union bargaining authority derailed the talks. Letteri said Harvard's failure to guarantee job security to officers who fail their mandatory physical examinations was part of "a big all-out effort to break up the union" by using the physicals as an excuse to weed out uncooperative union members...