Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential ambitions behind him, Muskie plunged back into his Senate duties, assuming the chairmanship of the new Budget Committee in 1975. He succeeded in forging a bipartisan coalition that this year, for the first time, produced a balanced budget. He somewhat modified his New Deal liberalism and became more of a fiscal conservative, though he continued to rage at what he considered to be overzealous budget cutters. When 46 Senators tried to limit federal spending in fiscal 1981 to 21% of G.N.P., he revealed that 34 of them had recently voted to breach the budget to provide more funds...
...Social Studies committee chairmanship currently has no time limit and provides no time off from teaching responsibilities, as do the chairmanships of regular departments...
...decided to create a review committee to "inform myself more carefully" about the status of the concentration. Rosovsky declined to discuss the specific intent of the review, but Walzer and Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, suggested three issues the committee will examine closely: the nature of the chairmanship, the status of junior faculty in the concentration, and the effect of program expansion on resources, both teaching an budgetary...
...chairmanship has become considerably more time-consuming since I took it on, and I think it should be a term appointment that carries relief from teaching," Walzer said, adding, "Twelve years is too long...
...chairmanship is a three-year post, Harry N. Hirsch, the department's head tutor, said yesterday...