Word: berkeley
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...presidents of Columbia University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Wisconsin, University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan will attend along with the deans of education schools from Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley...
...Berkeley, Calif...
Citing the need, however, to get to work on the advanced materials as quickly as possible for national security purposes, Key worth bypassed the review board, instead proposing and pushing through Congress funds for the center specifically targeted for Berkeley. Congress authorized $3 million for the 1984 fiscal year to begin construction work on the center...
Although it is the country's best interest to start the project as soon as possible, many Washington lobbyists also think a strong effort by Reagan's friends on the West Coast helped Berkeley garner the project. "The President's California Mafia prevailed on this one," one university lobbyist says...
Bruce Abel, a Key worth aide says that the Columbia and Calbolic maneuver's were somewhat different and were "purely political." But Keyworth's unusual move in awarding the advanced materials center to Berkeley without the proper poor review may have provoked the similar actions by Columbia and Catholic. The Rev. William Byron, Catholic's president says that it was the Berkeley move which seemed to condone their later lobbying...