Word: wising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University make provision for considering each candidate's teaching skills. Nevertheless, critics often reply that if Harvard really cared about instruction it would award tenure to outstanding teachers even though they have not produced distinguished research. This reaction fails to take account of all that is involved in making wise tenure decisions. In universities, teaching goes on at many levels--in undergraduate classrooms, in the mentoring of new generations of teachers and scholars and through the dissemination of published scholarship to audiences beyond the campus. Each of these functions is important, and each must be respected in building the faculty...
...House bill retains the ban on interstate handguns and ends forever the sale and transfer of machine guns. It also keeps open the possibility of surprise inspections for gun dealers. All of these have been hotly contested by the NRA, and hearings or no hearings, many Congressmen were wise to the implications...
...aisle-seat wise. There he is, just a businessman flying to Daytona Beach, Fla., straining to keep his deals in place, and next to him is this . . . this gorgeous girl. Long hair, four-alarm wardrobe, sleepy smile that turns surprisingly cordial when he strikes up a conversation. "Spring break, right...
...disguises the fact that the violence and frustration of this small section of the world is mounting. Throughout the film, the unlucky players seem to be heading ever more quickly toward disaster. Kureishi's lively, compassionate script and Frears' steady direction provide some comic relief and, just as important, wise and unblearyeyed condemnations...
...both Bethlehem and Nazareth. In Bethlehem, one could imagine a hall of martyred saints along the same lines as Disneyland's current hall of dead U.S. Presidents. At the mere pull of a string, the vacationer could hear Joseph and Mary's arguments about possible infidelity and the three wise men debating what gift Emily Post would recommend for the birth of a savior...