Word: chairmanship
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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...
...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 is a three-year post, Harry N. Hirsch, the department's head tutor, said yesterday...
...Afro-American Studies Department received a shot in the arm this week when Nathan I. Huggins, professor of history at Columbia University, accepted the W.E.B. DuBois Professorship of Afro-American Studies and History, the chairmanship of the Afro-Am Department, and the directorship of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, a center for studying problems facing Afro-Americans...
...quite a few leaders of the class of the '70s are about to make their valedictory. "We are all getting close to retirement age," says Shapiro, 63, who in 15 months has to leave the chairmanship of Du Pont, the chemicals colossus. "It will be a challenge for companies to produce the same kind of group in the 1980s...