Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beaufort Sea bidding is part of an Interior Department plan begun during the energy-conscious days of the Carter Administration, but sharply accelerated and expanded by Secretary James Watt. Watt's plan aims at opening a billion acres of the outer continental shelf to exploration during the next five years in the hope of finding oil that will make the U.S. less dependent on imported crude...
...surface, the twin appointments last week of Daniel Steiner '54 and Robert Scott as Harvard vice presidents may seem like a typical symptom of corporate bloating. In fact, the selections reflect President Bok's conscious desire for a decentralized administration made up of experts who independently rule. That structure on the whole seems to have worked remarkably well during Bok's 11 years. Certainly it has eased the fortress mentality that prevailed beore 1971. Bok's predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, relied exclusively on a tiny inner circle of all-purpose advisors and was widely blamed for mismanaging events such...
...what Mass Hall officials say it does: the most sensible and efficient way to divide up administrative responsibilities. But given Steiner's reputation as an anti-union expert, there is some room for doubt Harvard Tenants Union leaders fear that his appointment bodes ill for them and is a conscious effort by Bok to cleanse Harvard of its latest trouble spot...
Nonetheless, Begin may now face a nation that is more skeptical, more conscious of how its image in the world has changed and less willing to give its leaders carte blanche to pursue military adventures. The massacre may also have curbed the Israeli tendency to regard all Palestinians indiscriminately as terrorists. The images of massacred women, children and old men, shown in gory detail on Israeli television, may create new perceptions about Palestinians, notably the 1.3 million in the occupied territories...
...shaking up the entire investment industry. As the luster has faded from such multi-billion-dollar investment lures as money-market mutual funds and six-month bank certificates of deposit, investment experts have been scrambling to come up with new high-yield alternatives that will appeal to safety-conscious investors...