Word: alan
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Labor, State, Commerce are there. Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, is on hand, fingertips together, eyes on the ceiling. So is Jim Lynn, head of the Office of Management and Budget. Ford's special agent at these sessions is his economic assistant, L. William Seidman, fresh from his morning 1 %mile jog in Dumbarton Oaks Park. Other Cabinet officers and bureaucrats move in and out according to subject...
California Legislative Analyst Alan Post claims that the state's evaluation of the program is "mushy," not separating the results of E.C.E. from other programs. Says Post: "We know that some [teachers] are complaining that the E.C.E. is making a shambles out of the classroom. Our position toward expanding E.C.E. is that prudent fiscal measures be exercised until the program has clearly proved its effectiveness...
...these considerations. Personnel decisions that have traditionally been the closeted concerns of committees were laid bare. Clark students will clearly have more control over the curriculum as a consequence of the sit-in. The only area in which the students failed was in their demand for the tenure of Alan F. Gummerson, who was not rehired partly because he is a Marxist...
...legal observers found little fault with the decision. "It goes along with what is already normally done by doctors in cases where it is determined that additional treatment will have no ameliorative effect," says Attorney Stanton Price, a lecturer at the U.C.L.A. School of Public Health. Columbia Politics Professor Alan Westin, author of Privacy and Freedom, adds: "The court has said that, whether it's abortion or other matters, these difficult and tragic decisions should lodge with the family and not the state...
...similar vein, Alan E. Heimert '49, Cabot Professor of American Literature and a student of Miller's, has discussed the "declension" of Massachusetts Bay Puritanism in terms of its shift in emphasis from spiritual well-being to material prosperity--a shift reflected by the jeremiads, sermons of the 1660s that preach virtue as a means of averting crop failure...