Word: appointing
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...that Dr. Mack himself will be deterred from pursuing his research agendas--though other more timorous Professors may. What is troubling is the principle behind a dean convening an investigative committee, at least in the absence of clear guidelines or criteria. Unless challenged now, the precedentsetting effect of the appointment of this committee will act as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of every professor who drifts outside the mainstream, especially in politically sensitive areas. It is noteworthy that the issue of space aliens is not a politically, racially or sexually divisive one. Imagine if a committee were...
...also not been lost on the Clinton White House that the Bush-era recession and frail recovery were blamed on rate hikes engineered by Greenspan. In the next nine months, Clinton must decide whether to appoint him to a third consecutive term as chairman. Greenspan might like that. Enough to soften his reluctance to reduce rates? If not, there are others on the Fed who are less reluctant. "I don't think there is going to be a recession,'' says vice chairman Alan Blinder, a Clinton nominee who thinks job creation is as important a mandate as Greenspan's focus...
...week's discovery and haphazard treatment of a public log file revealing the names of Harvard community members and their network activities....The body discussing these issues is a mere ad hoc subdivision of the Standing Committee on Information Technology. If the administration takes these issues seriously, it should appoint a higher-priority committee to develop a flexible and evolving set of policies which clearly define network users' rights and responsibilities...
...primary aim is to increase the size of the faculty and to get experts in the faculty in areas [in which] we have great necessity," Clark said. "Naturally, the more [women and minorities] we appoint, the more the faculty will start to look like the composition of lawyers...
...told Casey, "I think we've been penetrated." Not until October 1986, however--almost a year after the CIA began to realize it had a serious problem--did it finally act to try to pinpoint the source of the trouble. George ordered Gus Hathaway, the counterintelligence chief, to appoint a small special task force to study the problem. Hathaway named Vertefeuille, who had returned from Gabon, as the head of the task force...