Word: directionality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more ad-hoc committees--but only when there's someone devoted and competent to chair them. The two success stories of last year's council--campus security and minority and women faculty hiring--came as a direct result of the actions of ad-hoc committees and their dedicated chairs. But when ad-hoc committees--like the committee on divestment--aren't taken seriously by their chairs, nothing gets done...
Jewish parents too often encourage their teenage children to consort only with other Jews, and Jewish fraternities and sororities across the country reinforce this sentiment. After graduation, some of these Jews consciously seek out Jewish networks--a direct carryover from college Greek life--to break into employment...
...Firestone, gives credit to Japan's Bridgestone for bailing out his company with a $2.6 billion buyout last year. But that has not removed the vast differences in the ways the two companies communicate. "I'm seen as terribly abrupt and abrasive," says Nevin. "If you're very direct, you're admired in American culture. The Japanese culture is much more subtle. I can never get them to tell me what they actually mean, and they may think I'm rude and crass. But both sides are only behaving in ways familiar to their own cultures...
Even so, the relative handling of the stories amounts to a blatant rejection of the poetic notion that each time the bell of doom tolls, it tolls for all mankind. The collective news judgment seems to be that each death diminishes the reader in direct proportion to the shared bonds of nationality, ethnicity, religion, type of government and the like. Pointing out this callous calculus seems to do nothing to mitigate it. As Columbia University professor Herbert Gans noted in his 1980 study Deciding What's News, network journalists in the 1960s tried to prick their bosses' consciences by assembling...
...real motivation for the center was the need for a full-fledged center with people with a high level of quantitative expertise," said Stephen W. Lagakos, the professor of biostatistics at the School of Public Health who will direct the center. He said that when the government first began funding AIDS research, it envisioned individual groups that would conduct small studies on their...