A colleague who surveyed the most recent evidence on employment found that some formerly implacable academic opponents of the minimum wage have softened their stance towards it, and that the IMF and the OECD both now reckon that minimum wages do little harm and may do some good.
Other leading academic opponents of pot have ties to the painkiller industry.
This resulted in a press scandal that was exploited by her academic opponents.
But he says that Bowra was the cause of scholarship in others, a defender of literature from all ages, a builder of academic friendships, an opponent of stultifying routine.
That has made business schools, along with many other academic institutions, staunch opponents of what they see as excessively harsh restrictions on student visas.
As much as Merriman humanizes his Communards, he summarily dismisses — with an indifference surprising in an academic historian — their opponents as categorical types, using derisive expressions like "fancy folk" or "elegant Parisians" or simply the "bourgeoisie".
Mr Franken has apologised, but the resurrection of Sexbots from "Porn-O-Rama!" was hardly ideal for the founder of a "midwest values" political committee.Despite all this, Mr Franken managed to defeat his opponent, an academic, and win the DFL's endorsement.
Or are we to conclude that pro-Israeli demonstrators are such violent opponents of academic freedom that the police cannot contain them?
A furious Sir Derek Roberts, acting provost of UCL, lashed out last week at the "hypocrisy" and "lies" of opponents among academic staff, who have campaigned vigorously against the plan he put forward with Sir Richard Sykes, rector of Imperial College.
This is what the Stoics' opponents, the Academic Skeptics, argue against them is possible (Plutarch, 69A).
