Word: impracticall
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Graduate students' demands that departments be willing to hire an alternative to a certain professor appear, if for financial reasons alone, impractical from the University's stand-point. The granting of such a request is, unfortunately, doubly unlikely at a school with Harvard's rigorous scholarly standards.
Some of these restraints are already observed by the industry (HBO, for example, notes violence in all its program guides, runs no R-rated movies before 8 p.m. and forbids X-rated films). Other recommendations, like lockboxes, may prove impractical. CBS called the church report "frightening." But Wall hopes that...
* Divestment would be inconsistent because apartheid may be no worse than other systems of oppression, and countless immoral regimes could warrant comparable if impractical action. Singling out South Africa for divestment would be inconsistent, arbitrary, and opportunistic, undermining Harvard's global credibility and entangling it in a web of logical...
In a decision that has broad implications for older workers in many occupations, the U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the claim of Criswell and the others, ruling unanimously that employers must meet a stringent legal standard before they can institute blanket retirement rules. Being younger than 60 is not...
One is Dental School Dean Paul Goldhaber whose graduating class of fewer than 50 students is the smallest at the University. Even if he wanted to the small number of Dental School diplomas makes it impractical to have them printed specially with his signature. So he signs them himself.