Word: whether
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent twist in the argument over whether Harvard offers its junior professors a fair chance is the charge that the University requires time-consuming administrative work that detracts from a young scholar's time to conduct research and write--the traditional criteria for senior-level posts...
...There is not any illusion about whether it counts for tenure because it absolutely does not," Nord says. "If the University is going to continue to have the tenure procedure it now does, it is not in the interests of junior faculty to be good citizens...
...Assistant Professor of English and American Literature Allen H. Reddick, the current head tutor in the English Department, says, "University service has no bearing whatsoever on whether one gets tenure or not. It doesn't work in your favor at all, but it necessarily takes time away from your scholarship...
...solution, Skinner believes, is to build new airports and expand existing ones so that they have room for more carriers. Next week voters in Denver will decide whether to fund the initial $2.3 billion for a new airport. It is the only major airport on U.S. drawing boards at the moment and, if approved, would be the country's first new one since Dallas-Fort Worth was completed...
...more than a month from the time the British task force sailed to retake the Falklands from Argentina to the time the war was won. Whatever the rights and wrongs of either war, announcing the prospect of a battle is leadership; announcing a victory is not. Whether America will actually defend its freedom with blood and money when called upon is -- for all the martial rhetoric and credit-card defense spending of the 1980s -- unproved...