Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...particular, committee members expressedfrustration with the slow pace of the University'splans for change, saying that the current hiringagenda is not ambitious enough...
...last 12 appointments going to women and minority professors. Still, less than 8 percent of the tenured faculty is women, and less than 10 percent is minorities. Additional pressure on the administration to boost these numbers--particularly for women scholars--can work only to quicken the pace of needed change. The addition of a qualified minority woman to the law faculty would provide an important scholarly perspective as well as provide a role model for minority and female students...
...among academicians and trade unions. In part this may be because Hanoi has ruled with a lighter touch than Beijing. Says Tran Phuoc Duong, the American- educated rector of Can Tho University, deep in the Mekong Delta: "Something has happened. There has been a lot of internal relaxation. The pace of change has taken people by surprise...
...Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, had hoped that the current combination of relatively high interest rates and sluggish growth would dampen price increases. But the Labor Department said last week that consumer prices rose 0.5% in March, bringing the annual inflation rate in the first quarter to 8.5%, the fastest pace in nearly eight years. "What's so scary about the number is that it's going to take more pain and punishment to bring inflation down," says Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisers...
With the arrival of James Bryant Conant to the presidency, a scientist who disliked the College's leisurely pace, Harvard began to move away from Lowell's ideals. Conant admired the intense, research-oriented German colleges, and introduced the "up or out" system, which gave junior faculty approximately eight years before they were either tenured or dismissed. The system has existed ever since...