Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...nobody should believe that one day's boycott will be enough to diversify the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Even President Derek C. Bok could not just snap his fingers and diversify the Faculty. Minority and women scholars first must accept tenure offers. The recent tenure rejections of Nellie Y. McKay, Albert J. Raboteau and Cornell R. West '74 demonstrate that Harvard must make itself more desirable to outside scholars before they will come. In the meantime, the administration should be praised for its recent efforts to revitalize Afro-American Studies through joint tenure offers. We encourage the administration...
This immense landmass, so long made immutable and monolithic by rule from the Kremlin, is now quaking under the impact of Gorbachev's reforms. The Soviet republics are beginning to snap the political and economic bonds linking them to the once all-powerful center in Moscow. With the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the vanguard, some of the imprisoned peoples are battering the outside walls and intend to leap to freedom. It now seems certain that the center cannot hold onto all 15 republics. What was unthinkable only a few months ago has now become reality...
...week after dashing headlong into the Massachusetts gubernatorial race, Boston University's president, John Silber, was asked if he'd gleaned any early lessons from his introduction to politics. Said the former philosophy professor with characteristic snap, crackle and pop: "It advises me to be less interesting, to learn to speak plastic, so that no one has the slightest idea what you're talking about...
...felt the pinch more keenly than heating-oil customers. During the brutal cold snap last month, when temperatures hovered in the single digits even in parts of the Sunbelt, fuel oil was in such demand that some distributors ran dry. The clamor for supply pushed prices up as high as $1.50 per gal., a 50% increase in one month...
...zero, the record high for the year." Lemonick was relieved to return to the relatively mild climes of McMurdo Station, where the temperatures hovered in the 30s. He might have enjoyed McMurdo even more had he known what was waiting for him back in New York City: a cold snap, with temperatures dipping into the teens. For all its ; harsh splendor, Antarctica suddenly seemed as welcoming as a summer beach...