Word: talk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you talk to superintendents, they all express concern about the lack of people to take their place," said Patricia A. Graham, dean of the School of Education...
...back to the first meeting at which representatives of MSA expressed to Dean Spence their concern regarding Harvard's embarrassingly low number of minority faculty members. Spence said that his office could not interfere with the autonomy of the departments in hiring decisions, so he invited MSA to talk directly to the department chairs about the problem...
...only feasible action was to write off the entire weekend and gawk at the tourists, visiting college students and wistful alums. And listen--to the hi-fi din of dining-hall parties, to the crunch of empty beer cans against foreheads, and to roommate talk...
...just newspapers whose lives were made livelier by the presence of jittery activity on both coasts. Television too had a lot to talk about, and so did ordinary people with nothing else...
...seems to forget that Japan, an island nation rich in know-how and poor in resources, is itself a prime beneficiary of the triumph of ideas over matter. The Japanese may not be also-rans in software and custom chips forever. But at a time when so many books talk only about what is wrong with the U.S., Gilder's optimism about the future of American high-tech is refreshing...