Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left his Biogen post and returned to Harvard, whereupon his tenure was restored and upgraded this year to a University professorship. Earlier this year Gilbert also assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology...
Many received calls, but only one answered. U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani turned down the job. So did Nicholas Brady, chief executive of the Dillon, Read brokerage house. It began to seem as if the chairmanship of the Securities and Exchange Commission would go begging until David Sturtevant Ruder, 58, a Northwestern University law professor, ended a six-month White House search by accepting the $82,500-a-year position last week. Ruder has taught courses in SEC law and written extensively on securities, but some skeptics in Congress wonder if he is the "tough cop" needed to continue the crackdown...
...highly regarded private economist (and longtime member of TIME's Board of Economists) who served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Ford Administration. Said Greenspan last week, after revealing that it took him "milliseconds" to accept the President's job offer: "Under Paul's chairmanship, inflation has been effectively subdued. It will be up to those of us who follow him to be certain that those very hard-won gains are not lost...
Professor of Romance Languages Jean Marie Apostolides came to Harvard from Stanford University six years ago as an asscoiate professor. Apostolides received tenure two years later, but this year he announced he will return to Stanford to accept a lifetime post and possibly the chairmanship of that school's French and Italian Department. Apostolides's departure leaves the department without a scholar of French literature who is capable of placing literary texts in a cultural context...
However, NYU Professor of History and Sociology Norman Cantor, who was dean of the faculty during Buettner-Janusch's chairmanship, maintains that the university was responsive to faculty complaints. "In the spring of 1979 I personally interviewed every member of that department. Only a very small number thought he was abrasive and difficult to get along with. If the majority had opposed him, he would not have been reappointed as chair," he says...