Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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A freeze on faculty hiring and substantial cutback of junior faculty members may be effected at Brandeis University next year as a result of the university's unsteady financial situation.
An article in the Brandeis student newspaper, The Justice, said last week that 73 terminating faculty contracts will not be renewed in 1971. However, at least 41 faculty members are returning from sabbatical or leaves of absence to create a net cutback of about 30 faculty members.
The majority of those affected by the skimming are non-tenured, junior faculty members holding one-year contracts. Positions vacated by tenured faculty this year will probably not be filled in 1971.
The net cutback of 30 faculty members represents just under ten per cent of Brandeis' faculty of 392. One professor yesterday called the number "unusually high."
The Knife. The footage of the murder at the concert eventually appears. "Can you run that for me again?" Jagger is heard asking offscreen, and the film makers are happy to oblige. They not only run it over, they run it in slow motion and freeze frames, while Dave Maysles...