Word: bypass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision to bypass the Commission thus clearly locates the GSAS's center of power in the departments--not in the dean's office or the graduate student body. Dean Wilcox says that he has urged department chairmen not to fund students below their calculated need, but it seems unlikely that all chairmen will heed his advice. Many of them have already complained that the Kraus plan drains their "merit pool" to its functional limits...
...recent budgeteering. The last Presidential Science Adviser, Edward E. David Jr., who resigned last month after 2½ years of service, admits that he never saw the President more than twice in any single month. Furthermore, in promoting controversial schemes like the SST, Nixon has tended increasingly to bypass the White House science staff, preferring instead to work through his technology counselor, William Magruder. Thus Nixon's latest moves hardly come as a surprise to scientists. Says M.I.T. President Jerome Wiesner, who was President Kennedy's science adviser: "The reorganization simply recognizes the situation as it has existed...
...bypass doctors, but considering the limited number of hours of an M.D.'s training in nutrition, I'll stick to nutritionists for my eating advice...
...they found joy in banding together to exercise a power they had never known before. Their projects were hardly radical. They kept their children out of class to force stingy school boards to expand hot-lunch programs and to repair schools and outhouses. They established cooperative grocery stores to bypass merchants who raised prices on days when food stamps were issued. They exposed officials who used state-financed work gangs to improve their private property. They documented the practice of bureaucrats who paid $5, or sometimes $3 and a bottle of whisky, for a vote. They successfully challenged hundreds...
There are several merits to this plan. For one thing, it allows you to fight ideological battles while not at the same time fighting organizational battles. For another, it allows you to bypass long-standing attachments to party labels so you can quickly get to the keys issues. Most importantly, it allows you to contend for the working person's sympathy without helping to elect conservative Republicans, which would be the major result of third-party efforts which were very successful. IN OTHER WORDS, IT ALLOWS YOU TO WORK FOR A LONG-TERM CHANGE IN WORKING CLASS IDEOLOGY WITHOUT DOING...