Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slogging service to their parties-ringing doorbells, running Xerox machines, driving voters to the polls on election days. They include an air-pollution technician from Virginia, a haberdasher from Kansas, a housewife from Oklahoma and a community antipoverty organizer from New York. Some Governors, big-city mayors and state chairmen head uncommitted groups, but their persuasive powers may be lost on the individual delegates; many intend to vote their own consciences...
...Identical standards are used for judging all students at the Harvard Medical School. The chairmen of all of the preclinical departments have issued a signed statement to the effect that all students who graduate from the Harvard Medical School have received intensive training in the biological basis of medicine and all have been evaluated by the same academic standards. Similarly, there is no evidence to suggest that dual standards are used in the clinical clerkships...
...most recent denouncement of Davis's allegations came yesterday in a statement from the seven chairmen of the Med School's preclinical departments, dissociating themselves and their departments from the "unsubstantiated and damaging" statements made by Davis in the medical journal...
Heated Issue. Under the present law, six committees on the Hill (three in the Senate and three in the House) are charged with overseeing intelligence operations. Their oversight has been infrequent and ineffectual. Yet their chairmen are reluctant to share any power. In addition, Church and his allies face another problem as they try to push through their proposals: growing apathy. Because the whole process has taken so long, and so much has been written and said, controlling the CIA is no longer a heated political issue. The substantial reforms initiated by Ford, the CIA and the Department of Justice...
...seems, on the whole, to accept the need for substantial reductions in the university's expenses, the body feels Silber's methods have been arbitrary and abrasive. Silber has consistently refused to consult with the faculty representatives in devising the budget for next year, claiming that deans and department chairmen cannot be objective when they are fighting for scarce resources...