Word: towering
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Should a university have the right to get rid of a "grossly incompetent" teacher? Should a professor whose classroom performance does students a "disservice" be sent packing? Outside the ivory tower, few people would say no. But when the University of California, Berkeley, last year became the first school to draft rules for firing tenured teachers, some charged that this amounted to an assault on their intellectual freedom. "You'll never go broke overestimating how sensitive the tenure issue is to faculty," says Richard Chait, director of the National Center for Post-Secondary Governance and Finance at the University...
Even beyond the ivory tower, people have long been limited in what they can say to each other. The United States Supreme Court decided in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire that certain "epithets [are] likely to provoke the average person to retaliation, and thereby cause a breach of the peace." The decision goes on to assert...
...associations and sundry political associations. These activities can mean positions of prestige, ties of friendship, but they also mean commitment. Time and commitment. Behind every race, performance and magazine lies a large volume of meetings, rehearsals, practices, and planning sessions. Except for one loosely organized group--the Lowell Bell Tower Ringers. For them, every rehearsal is a performance, every performance a new composition. The only requirement for joining the group is a willingness to climb the eight flights of stairs and improvise on the ancient Russian bells. Any student is welcome to come watch and play, every Sunday morning...
Ever since Chicago declared a ten-story building the world's first "skyscraper" in the 1880s, local developers have competed to see how high they could go. Since 1974, the Sears Tower (on the left in the model) has * ranked as the world's tallest building at 1,454 ft., but that title is about to be challenged by a planned $500 million tower only three blocks away from the current champ. Code-named Skyneedle, the 125-story building would soar to a height of nearly 2,000 ft. Rivals have criticized the proposal by developers Lee Miglin and Paul...
...Control tower officials said the plane may have lost power in one of its four engines. Bergen, the FAA spokesperson, said the agency had reports the plane lost a second engine as well...