Word: directorships
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After Pravda came academe--the directorship first of his alma mater, the Institute of Oriental Studies, and then, in 1985, of the country's premier think tank, the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO). Primakov took over IMEMO at the beginning of the Gorbachev era and quickly became a key part of the Gorbachev team. He played a major role in creating the ideology of perestroika, in particular questioning the communist dogmas that had traditionally determined foreign relations. But his predilection for the shadows and his stiffness in public meant that he received less credit than Gorbachev...
...Harvard] is pretty low compared toother universities, but that's not enough to makeme move," says Daniel J. Jacob, McKay professor ofacademic chemistry and environmental engineering."I would only move for the directorship of aninstitute or research center...
Harvard professors so rewarded include DillonProfessor of International Affairs Jorge I.Dominguez with the directorship of the WeatherheadCenter for International Affairs and Professor ofGovernment Gary King with the head of theHarvard/MIT Data Center...
...lifelong love of anthropology inspired Professor Emeritus William W. Howells '30 and Muriel S. Howells to endow the directorship of the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology earlier this month...
...newly-endowed directorship requires the Dean of the Faculty to select the best available individual. The endowment enables the appointment of a director who has not been tenured, or whose experience is not primarily academic...