Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coalition of pro-choice groups said they had collected 95,895 signatures for one of the proposed amendments, which would guarantee a woman's right to an abortion in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy and an unrestricted right to choose methods of birth control...
...effort to increase control over its $4.5 billion endowment, Harvard money managers have tried to limit the University's investments to fewer companies this year, Vice President for Finance Robert H. Scott said yesterday...
Harvard also refuses to recognize groups that are affiliated with national organizations, and we support this policy. Not only do the students who run these groups have no control over the larger direction of the organization--such as whether to admit women--but Harvard has much less control over the groups in question. Harvard's policy may be against discrimination, but if the national organization's is not, the group must be loyal to the latter or risk losing its affiliation...
...students. According to some PBHA members, the organization's paid professional staff doesn't give enough weight to the concerns of student members. Perhaps this is because Johnson began only this semester to hold regular formal meetings with student coordinators. Or maybe it is because undergraduates do not even control the funds that pay the the professional staffers--Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 does...
...seems odd that the Harvard administration, which requires that undergraduates have decision-making power in all undergraduate organizations, should wink at, or even condone, the control of non-students over PBHA...