Word: directorships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prominent economist who turned down the directorship of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) two years ago after loud student and faculty opposition said yesterday he does not regret his decision because he is still able to collaborate periodically with Harvard scholars on a variety of projects...
Harbarger said the work on Indonesia has given him "the pleasure of colleague interaction-without the administrative hassles" which would have come with the HIID directorship...
...wiring. This well-intentioned but clumsy interference apparently gave Bok the final push toward a move he may have already favored: He cancelled all expansion plans, contending that the art sale proposal would scare away any possible replacements for Slive, who announced last year that he would relinquish the directorship this fall...
Nine years later he was offered a post he could not refuse: the directorship of BBC-2, Britain's new high-brow channel. His stewardship produced such series as The Forsyte Saga, Civilisation, The Ascent of Man and America. Attenborough, the brother of Actor-Director Richard Attenborough, did not thrive on administrative duties, however, and in 1977 he began the three years of work that would produce his own series. Life on Earth was first shown on the BBC in 1979 and has since gone through two reruns, receiving universal praise from British critics. The reason for so much...
Nobel Laureate Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology at the Medical School, is one of three candidates being considered by the Reagan administration for the directorship of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Washington Post reported yesterday...