Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Others express concern that the star system skews the age distribution of senior faculty and overlooks young, potentially brilliant scholars. "The procedures prescribed by Harvard for making tenure appointments worry me for this reason--they may be somewhat slanted against younger people. In my field of English, the younger a person is, the less likely he is heard of outside the university. There might be the greatest Wunderkind in the world and we might know that but outside people won't Perkins says...
...research. Perkins also favors altering the tenure process slightly to allow department chairmen to vote on the ad hoc committee instead of furnishing the committee with a written position paper and appearing for testimony. In this way, the chairmen would be able to prompt consideration of some of the younger talent...
...Louis picked up soccer during the spring and summer of her senior year in high school. Her older brother Mike, a 1976 Harvard graduate, needed someone else to play soccer with, so he gave his younger sister the call...
...tiny Commonwealth of Dominica (pop. 78,000), a 290-sq.-mi. speck in the Lesser Antilles, earns 70% of its $12 million export revenues from the serviceable fruit, and it has replaced Queen Elizabeth II as head of state with a ceremonial President. Nonetheless, the Queen's younger sister, a newly thinned-down Princess Margaret, presided over the independence ceremonies that made Dominica the Western Hemisphere's 30th sovereign state. As the Union Jack was hauled down in Windsor Cricket Park, it was replaced by the country's sassy new multicolored flag emblazoned with a green Sisserou...
Iacocca insisted on being given a free hand in running Chrysler's day-to-day affairs, and evidently he will get it. President Eugene Cafiero, who at 52 is only two years younger than Riccardo and was not a strong candidate to succeed him, was made vice chairman and given vaguely defined duties involving planning. Riccardo announced that he will turn over his job as chief executive officer to Iacocca next year and devote most of his energies to Government relations and Chrysler's finances, which he says already occupy "almost 100%" of his time...