Word: centralization
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...Internet we can open our courtrooms to complete, trustworthy, inexpensive, gavel-to-gavel access to our courts. True Internet access to court proceedings is key to reviving the central and ideal place of law in America. Our courts demonstrate the centrality of law and of constitutional rights every day. They aspire to (and often exemplify) the ideals of our government. Our courts affirm that we are a government under law. With Internet, all people all over the world can witness the administration of justice in America. Contrary to Cheney’s assertion that we need secrecy, force and torture...
...Even Jaeger admits that the gross ramifications of the financial decline have alerted the union to the absence of University leadership when it comes to thinking beyond calculations and figures. “The main thing [central administrators] really do is set that number,” Jaeger says. “We wish they were doing more than that to really lead or to advise the schools and departments as to how to cope...
...Since Smith warned the Faculty of severe budget reductions, Sweet has been advising the individual departments and centers through the budget planning process by providing guidance in line with fiscal recommendations from central administration, according to Brandt...
...finances: endowments, private philanthropy, and gifts from cash-strapped foundations. While stimulus funds have temporarily swelled the budgets of federal science agencies, the long-term picture for government funding is hazy at best, and may fall victim to deficit-cutting two years from now. Within Harvard, the deans and central administrators have had the unenviable task of cutting budgets in order to match our expenses to our newly constrained resources. We have all spent many hours since October engaged in these painful exercises...
...hope that House spirit won’t be impacted, as the Houses play such a central role in the University,” he says. “But I’m confident that we can maintain the House’s ‘espirit de corps...