Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years. "He is very adroit at manipulating the friendships and animosities of those around him." Yeltsin's distrust of others and his gift for manipulation found its expression in the 1993 constitution. Drawn up at the height of Yeltsin's confrontation with the legislature, the constitution gave the President broad and vaguely defined prerogatives. The aim was to ensure that he, and only he, controlled all the levers of power...
...future of PBHA. Along with this recognition, however, comes certain provisions that seem to emasculate the power of this new board. For example, Harvard's assistant dean for public service "maintains oversight and authority over PBHA programs for risk management, fiscal integrity, and compliance with legal insurance requirements." The broad definition of these three categories gives Harvard control over basically everything the organization does; almost any decision we make can be traced to one of those three things. Additionally, the executive agent, theoretically an agent of the PBHA Board of Trustees to execute its policies, "will cooperate as a member...
Last year it took the Harvard police several months to issue a warning to the community in the wake of a broad-daylight rape near the Weeks footbridge and an assault on a student near Mather. This fall the administration and the Harvard police have definitely been more responsive. It took only a week for the HUPD to post flyers around campus describing the armed home invasion and rape that took place a few blocks from Dunster House on September 7. According to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, this expediency was due partly to the fact that...
This is not to say that anyone with a campaign logo and a home-cooked platform should be entitled to a national audience as a presidential candidates. Indeed, the two major parties do ensure that the public is choosing from candidates with a broad base of support and with views on all the big national questions. It is to say, however, that someone from outside the two major parties who can achieve these credentials should be allowed to stand before the American people as well...
...task now for the Democrats in Congress--and for the Republicans who squandered the advantage that was in their grasp after 1994--is to learn the lessons of the Clinton victory and develop a broad-based, centrist philosophy that seeks to build on the fiscally prudent, values-based agenda that President Clinton began to articulate during the 1996 campaign...