Word: topflight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospering because crime pays in the ghetto. Many gangs have made the deadly transition from switchblade bravado to organized crime, serving as highly efficient distributors for Colombian cocaine dealers. Stiff competition has prompted bloody firefights in broad daylight over market share, while the influx of drug money provides topflight weapons, fancy cars and high-tech surveillance equipment. Once an adolescent phase, gang membership is now a full-time job, enticing many members to stay well into their...
Three years ago then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky recognized the importance of Women's Studies and established a committee to bring the burgeoning discipline to Harvard. In the process, he also burdened the committee with an unrealistic task: that of bringing to Harvard a topflight scholar who would double as an administrator and generate an entire Women's Studies program, which has proven at best lukewarm to the idea...
Three years ago then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky recognized the importance of Women's Studies and established a committee to bring the burgeoning discipline to Harvard. In the process, he also burdened the committee with an unrealistic task: that of bringing to Harvard a topflight scholar who would double as an administrator and generate an entire Women's Studies program, which has proven at best lukewarm to the idea...
Three years ago then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky recognized the importance of Women's Studies and established a committee to bring the burgeoning discipline to Harvard. In the process, he also burdened the committee with an unrealistic task: that of bringing to Harvard a topflight scholar who would double as an administrator and generate an entire Women's Studies program, which has proven at best lukewarm to the idea...
...committee to establish the burgeoning, multi-disciplinary field here, Harvard remains the only Ivy League institution without any sort of women's studies program. Although the committee was empowered to tenure a professor jointly in women's studies and another discipline, it has yet to snag any topflight scholar. Last spring Harvard lost renowned feminist literary critic Elaine Showalter to Princeton, which has demonstrated its commitment to the field. Apparently the committee has become bogged down, holding out for a savior both to fill this single chair and to double as an administrator who will generate an entire women...