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...Ph.D. from the University of Texas and a nine-year bureaucrat, Boren is now head of an engineering and design firm but spends half his time lecturing, writing books and otherwise flourishing as "Founder, President and Chairperson of the Board of the International Association of Professional Bureaucrats (INATAPROBU)." He has an office in the National Press Building, a supply of wall-poster maxims ("Nothing is impossible until it is sent to a committee") and an estimated 970,38 enthusiastic members in 17,3 countries. They have dinners, annual meetings ("If you don't have anything...
...TFAA did not stop with the member organizations. It was also able to gather direct and indirect support from faculty, as well as other struggles (i.e., the Afro-American Studies concentrators and the TFAA had a relationship of mutual support, with the concentrators struggling to stop the new Department Chairperson's attempts at narrowing curriculum and her not rehiring talented and extremely qualified instructors...
...problem restated by this book is more than a joke and less than a na tional crisis. To their credit, the authors usually hover somewhere between these extremes. They admit that social attitudes cannot be changed overnight simply by inventing words. But even such terms as "Ms" and "chairperson" they insist, really do help meet needs created by the growing independence and authority of women. Many people (not all of them men) would rather scrape their fingernails across a blackboard than hear such ugly and artificial neologisms especially when they are propounded on the unproved assumption that it will...
...first and second loges are the alternates; then, in steeply ascending galleries, politicians and guests. Long desks for the writing press flank the specially built 12-ft.-high podium. Each delegation chairman has a red "hotline" phone to talk with the podium, which is presided over by Convention Chairperson Lindy Boggs, a Louisiana Congresswoman. When the receiver is taken off the hook, a light at the rostrum signals and the caller can ask to be recognized...
LINDY BOGGS, 60, the Louisiana Congresswoman who will serve as chairperson of the proceedings. Corinne Claiborne Boggs was elected in 1973 to fill the seat held for years by her husband, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, after he disappeared in a plane over Alaska. Though she was born on a plantation and has something of the manner of a Southern belle, Lindy Boggs is an astute politician. She has been elected twice to the House by overwhelming majorities. She began her political career as a Democratic precinct captain in 1938, managed her husband's campaigns and will be attending...