Word: developers
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Therefore, the faculty voted to delegate its power to oversee student discipline to a small committee of teaching faculty. The Ad Board's small membership, fewer than a dozen people, was designed to allow the body develop a consistent policy for dealing with academic and behavioral infractions and with petitions for exceptions from regular Harvard rules...
...essential for getting courts to consider alternative sentencing, says University of Chicago Law Professor Norval Morris, is to develop a publicly understood "exchange rate" between prison time and other forms of punishment, a table of penalties that judges can use for guidance on how to sentence offenders. "We should be able to say that for this crime by this ; criminal, either x months in prison, or a $50,000 fine plus home detention for a year plus x number of hours of community service," Morris contends...
...idea, in 1985, of bringing Palestinians and Israelis together for peace talks through a steering committee of American, Egyptian and Jordanian officials. Later he accompanied Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein when they visited the U.S. in 1985. Khashoggi proposed a $300 billion fund to develop the area, a kind of Marshall Plan that would serve as an incentive for peace negotiations. Late in 1985, using his DC-8, he visited eight heads of state in ten days to push his plan. But ultimately nothing came of it. Khashoggi says he has brokered many political arrangements, like...
...formed in 1982 by ten companies, in part to counter Japan's Fifth- Generation Project, a combined government and industry effort to develop new supercomputers. The consortium's member firms agreed to pool the results of jointly financed long-term research conducted at an Austin center on such subjects as artificial intelligence and the making of silicon microchips. The original MCC roster was an honor roll of technological titans, including Digital Equipment, Advanced Micro Devices, Honeywell and National Semiconductor. Subsequently other respected firms, including 3M and Boeing, joined, and the current membership numbers...
Before he took his abrupt leave as the President's National Security Adviser, Vice Admiral John Poindexter mused, "An activist President cannot be satisfied with the status quo. A President must have a way to develop bolder options." Even David Durenberger, who as head of the Senate Intelligence Committee has had his share of harsh things to say about Reagan's swashbuckling, asks, "How in the world ((can)) a President make and implement policy in a world in which we're trying to anticipate events, rather than confront them after they have occurred...