Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study, the Faculty's report on "The Recruitment of Minority and Women Faculty Members" recommended that departments aggressively search out qualified minority candidates for junior and senior Faculty positions. The report also suggested that departments with especially small numbers of women Faculty members put forth a "special effort" to attract "the largest possible number of the strongest women candidates." Four of those departments--Anthropology, English, History, and Psychology and Social Relations--this year granted tenure to women scholars, which will bring the total number of tenured women Faculty members to 16 next fall. As of 1979-80, the Faculty included...
...looks cynically at those who explain their outside activities in non-monetary terms, identifying "an element of special pleading" in such an argument to "justify the type of activity they do." Professors don't like to discuss financial specifics, except to acknowledge that the pay is good enough to attract people. In economics, for example, consulting can bring in as much as $200 an hour, and one member of the department says that some of his colleagues earn as much as half of their incomes by doing non-University work. In 1975, it was estimated that a Business School professor...
...dozens of private universities and send tuitions skyrocketing. He added that the University would probably not increase its in-lieu payments, even though Proposition 2 1/2 will save it thousands of dollars in taxes on its commercial property, Instead, Harvard will seek "other ways"--consulting in an attempt to attract new business to Cambridge, for example--to help the city through its fiscal crisis...
...decade to be liquidated by the FSLIC, but it may be only the first of many in the coming months. Like all S and Ls, Economy Savings was trapped in a profit squeeze caused by unrelenting high interest rates. It was forced to pay as much as 15% to attract deposits, while carrying many old mortgages on its books that earned less than...
Munich Psychologist Georg Sieber, a well-known security consultant in Europe, is not much impressed by gadgetry or bodyguards. Among his tips for worried businessmen: "planned irregularity" should be the byword; avoid golf and activities that attract big gatherings, like horse races; carry a small transmitter for SOS messages in emergencies. In the U.S. the most basic advice that security firms give to potential targets in industry is to keep a low profile: do not talk to the press or become a public figure, get out of the phone book, no names on company parking spots and no logos...