Word: appointed
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...this time, the Corporation consisted of four corporate mavens and three academics, including President Derek C. Bok. With the death last year of corporate executive Colman M. Mockler and the impending retirements of Robert G. Stone '45 and good ol' Charles P. Slichter '45, the Corporation will have to appoint three new colleagues. And with these vacancies comes a chance to diversify the board dramatically...
...sciences and mathematics departments were the first to make some changes in the 1960s. The Mathematics Department looked to foreign universities, including Soviet institutions, to bolster its ranks. The Government and Economics Departments branched out more in the 1970s, and the last departments to appoint more broadly have been History and the humanities...
Harvard's Fine Arts Department is a concentration with a lot of possibilities and not a little ambition: the faculty hopes to appoint as many as 11 scholars in the next three years...
Under the guidance of Fine Arts Chair John K. Shearman, the department has made an ideological shift back to more traditional hiring practices. Rather than hiring a scholar based on ideology and methodology, the department has chosen to appoint by fields, which allows for more diversity of scholarship, he says...
...stifle the revolution in the provinces. The only thing that distinguishes the Perm regional soviet from Moscow's discredited national parliament, they joke, is that in Perm there are no electronic voting machines. Radical reformers, in fact, want Yeltsin to expand presidential control over regional executive bodies and appoint his own administrative representative in Perm to see that reforms are carried out. Contends local political columnist Vladimir Vinichenko: "We must use some authoritarian methods to ensure the victory of democracy...