Word: steps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Undaunted, Dormann's board of directors pursued the project by allowing Dormann, who had become too controversial, to step aside while they searched for a man of some academic status. They selected R. Gordon Hoxie, 51, who holds a Ph.D. in political science and had served as chancellor of New York's Long Island University for four years. He also holds the unusual distinction of having had a branch of his faculty vote that he be fired as chancellor. L.I.U.'s trustees asked for his resignation in 1968. Hoxie helped to get Franklin National Bank Chairman Arthur...
...little like watching a boy finger-painting and then brushing a few crude daubs on a canvas, after which these scenes are assembled in a show called Mama da Vinci's Boy Leon. Few people are likely to want to see the ordeal of apprenticeship onstage, the step-by-step trial of talent, and the stumble-by-stumble inevitability of error. In Minnie's Boys that is pretty much what the audience is condemned to observe. Only once, in the office of the vaudeville-circuit impresario, Edward F. Albee (Roland Winters), does the authentic Marxian madness break...
...Dick," he said. "you don't want to become a teacher. You've got too much life in you for that. We go through a special routine when teachers walk into the store. You have to make them feel secure. Teachers are afraid of life. They're afraid to step up to the plate and take a crack...
...during the day, frequently shuttling between Government Center and Maverick three times in a row. That killed 50 minutes whenever time seemed to be dragging. And part of the beauty of it was that you could get off the train in Government Center, walk right across the platform, and step in the train back to Maverick. They were that well synchronized...
...case which may even prevent the Supreme Court from ever debating the issue it poses. Briefly, by Article II of the U. S. Constitution, if the state brings the case as a primary party, the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in the case. This means that the preliminary step of bringing suit in Federal District Court could be avoided. However, as a practical matter, the Supreme Court could direct that the suit be heard first at the District level. If the case first appears in District Court and is denied, the state could then appeal to the Supreme Court...