Word: action
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ANOTHER casualty of the Faculty Committee was the Verba Report's recommendation that departmental affirmative action representatives form a standing faculty committee that would evaluate each department's progress. This committee would be headed by an associate dean for affirmative action. With regular meetings and a focused agenda, this committee might have been the engine of recruiting reform at Harvard...
reports from the department heads to the new Associate Dean for Affirmative Action, Berkman Professor of Economics Andreu Mas Colell...
...other weekend action, the Crimson fell, 6-0, Saturday afternoon in a non-league game to the Rochester Institute of Technology...
...rally in Soweto this Sunday, the first such assembly to be permitted in 30 years. State President F.W. de Klerk was beginning to make good on the promise he made at his inauguration last month to ease tensions and move the country into a new era of negotiations. His action signaled his potential willingness to go even further -- to free Nelson Mandela, the symbolic leader of black nationalism, and to sit down for talks with the A.N.C., which for three decades has been dedicated to toppling the government by "armed struggle...
Even as the earth rocked and rolled, California's army of seismologists rallied into action. In Berkeley, University of California graduate student Anthony Lomax felt the sidewalk shiver and watched telephone poles sway, then rushed to his seismographic station. "The instruments were off-scale!" he marveled. Within minutes the scientists on duty had pinpointed the epicenter of the quake in the rugged Santa Cruz mountains some 50 miles away. The spot was no surprise: it lay on the San Andreas fault, a great gash in the earth that extends nearly the length of the California coast. Even before the quake...