Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their efforts that year were paid off with the greatest university concession to the movement in its history. The Corporation, which decides the policy on Harvard's investment portfolio, agreed to sell its stock in banks that gave direct loans to South Africa. When the university tried to pull back on that policy in the spring of 1982, SASC shook itself out of a four-year dormancy to maintain the policy...
THERE IS ANOTHER side of the coin, so to speak, as those institutions which do not fare well in the merit review process naturally prefer Congress' direct grant scheme. Charles Coffin, director of government relations at Northeastern University, voices the complaint: "Frankly, for too long peer review has been a pipeline for the haves to continue to have and the have-nots to be shunted aside." Northeastern received a grant in the same bill as Cornell...
Faculty members agree with student assessments. "The benefits are that the department knows who its concentrators are and concentrators do have direct contact with the faculty. It's a much more personal experience than people would have in other departments," says Peter J. Kempthorne, head tutor in Statistics. Students "get close to individual attention," agrees Marshall Hyatt, head tutor in Afro-American Studies. "It gives the members of the faculty the chance to get to know the individual," says Gary A. Tubb, chairman of the department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies...
...other states. On the advice of a cousin in Birmingham, one thief drove a stolen 1986 Buick Skylark / from a dealer's lot in Atlanta to Johnny's. He got $700, and Johnny got his name and telephone number. Says Charles Jordan, the Birmingham police sergeant who helped direct the operation: "After a while, greed takes over wisdom...
...Central America that has got to be removed." To do this the Reagan Administration is seeking $100 million in military and economic aid to foot the bills of the Nicaraguan Contras as they wage war against the government. Military support, the administration claims, is the only alternative to the direct involvement of North American troops...