Word: cues
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Students and faculty members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) delayed decision yesterday on whether to approve an Undergraduate Council proposal which calls for greater student involvement in the tenure process...
...year, in response to widespread student criticism of the tenure process, the council suggested that students evaluate the teaching ability of junior faculty when tenure decisions are made. When faculty members at a meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education raised objections to the notion, the student delegates the CUE backed down...
...time after his death, Hollywood fell into a reverent silence on the subject of thrillers. The few bright children of Hitchcock's style, such as Brian De Palma (Dressed to Kill) and John Carpenter (Christine), were toiling in the fetid cellar of shock tactics; they took their cue from the gore and funereal fun of Psycho, not the narrative crisscrossing of Strangers on a Train. De Palma and Carpenter were only serving their audience. The music- video generation was disinclined to track the intricacies of a well-made plot. Those tame pleasures were best left to TV sleuths and their...
Knowing that the report would exonerate Reagan of complicity in the contra connection, the Administration had been pressuring the Intelligence Committee to make its findings public. Taking their cue from the White House, many Republican lawmakers were demanding immediate disclosure. Democratic Senators contended that the current draft was still incomplete and full of inconsistencies. Moreover, 13 Administration officials -- including members of the CIA and the NSC -- had been allowed to inspect the text, deleting portions they deemed diplomatically sensitive or dangerous to national security. And since neither North nor Poindexter would testify, the findings were far from complete. Said...
Buchanan took that as a cue to continue his crusade. In a TV interview he elaborated on the President's joke and attributed it to "one guy at the White House." Said Buchanan: "Ronald Reagan and Ed Meese are the Woodward and Bernstein of this. They ought to get the Pulitzer Prize." At a Miami rally of some 3,000 Cuban Americans that night, he heated up his rhetoric. "If Colonel North ripped off the Ayatullah and took $30 million and gave it to the contras," he declared, "then God bless Colonel North...