Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, the Kuwaitis have acted as passive investors, shunning public attention. That could change in the case of British Petroleum. Whatever the Kuwaitis do with their stake in Britain's oil company, they will attract the closest kind of scrutiny...
Granted, the K-School review of its fundraising procedures hit home on a number of abuses made in the overzealous effort to attract money to Harvard's youngest graduate school. Brought to light last November by a proposal to bestow University Officer status on an oil-rich Texas couple in return for a $500,000 gift, the Kennedy School's fundraising tactics had made the School a "loose cannon," in the words of a Harvard official...
...been "rewarded" with deputy or assistant positions and have seen their careers stagnate. Only a handful of Black faculty members from the 1970s remain here, since very few of them received tenure offers. As Dean Spence's 1984-85 Dean's report on tenure policy states, "Our ability to attract the ablest young scholars in all fields will depend on how credibly we can say that Harvard is an excellent place to begin an academic career." This statement particularly applies to top-level minorities, for whom a career in education often means rejecting more lucrative options in the job market...
...program proposed by Rev. Peter Gomes of the Memorial Church and modeled on the Mellon Fellowships suggests an effective way to attract Black Ph.D. candidates to Harvard for a two-year program that would allow for a period of "on-site mutual inspection." Under this program, 25 or 30 Blacks each year would be offered a two-year fellowship between teaching, research and other on-campus involvement--at the DuBois Institute, as residential tutors in the houses, and in other areas. At the end of two years of mutual evaluation, the most promising candidates would be offered junior faculty appointments...
...fact, most of the Republicans being mentioned for the vice presidency have too much character to be seen running behind a tumbleweed like Bush. Former cabinet members Elizabeth Dole and Jean Kirkpatrick would both quiet all the hecklers Bush would attract on the campaign trail and Congressman Jack Kemp would embarass Bush in physique alone. A photo opportunity with Kemp passing a football to Bush would end up with someone hurt...