CITY UNI HOPE FOR COURSES.LIVERPOOL Liverpool, city (1991 pop. 448,300), NW England, on the Mersey River near its mouth. It is one of Britain's largest cities. A large center for food processing (especially flour and sugar), Liverpool has a variety of industries, including the manufacture of electrical university's school of politics and seven other closure-threatened departments have taken a step closer to survival. The School of Politics and communications studies, philosophy and statistics departments and the future of five others was up in the air because of the quality of their research. But yesterday, action plans setting out targets to improve were approved by the university's academic committee. The immediate threat of closure will be removed if the plans go on to be approved by university bosses at two crunch (1) To process data. See number crunching. (2) To compress data. See data compression. 1. (jargon) crunch - To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way. meetings next month. Paul Athans, spokesman for student-led Save Our Subjects campaign, which organised city-wide protests against the cuts, said: "I am overjoyed they have overcome the first hurdle HURDLE, Eng. law. A species of sledge, used to draw traitors to execution. ." |
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