Word: accountants
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Criteria for the group are very difficult to develop. A fine line applicable in all situations cannot be drawn. In the end, the actions of this group must be based on the wise judgment of its members who must take into account the weight of their decisions and their impact on the financial well-being of the University. Moreover, when presuming to judge the actions of individuals we pose the danger of making elitist and self-serving decisions. To guard against this danger and to be fair to donors, criteria must be developed to the fullest extent possible...
...there is more to this statement than meets the eye. Most policy decisions are made through a process which does seem to account for consideration of student opinion. Students are represented on nearly all of the committees which have much to do with governing Harvard. The key, however, is "represented"; by any standards our "representation" amounts to tokenism. Our numbers are always small, and only on advisory committees do we seem to be allowed other than non-voting representatives...
...Senate, where the fate of the treaty would be decided, will probably be led by Democrat Jackson. Before it reaches the floor, the pact has to pass through his Subcommittee on Arms Control. He argues that while the pact establishes numerical equality in weaponry, it fails to take into account the greater size and power of Soviet missiles...
...traffic, which violates Mexican but not U.S. law, benefits stores in other Texas cities too. Mexicans account for an estimated 20% of all retail sales in San Antonio. In Houston, the Sakowitz department store does 10% of its business with Mexicans. Says Maurice Aresty, executive vice president of Houston's Retail Merchants Association: "They buy shoes, furs and all the jewelry they can carry back...
...statistical averages of style and theme," turned out to be the official style of the '50s and '60s. When repeated ad nauseam by architects all over the U.S. during the building boom of the 1950s, to the point where the curtain-wall grid had become the "rational," cost-account face of capitalism itself, it was bound to provoke a reaction...