Word: discussants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allison regarding some sources and data pertinent to his book, "Remaking Foreign Policy." I was bluntly told by his secretary that "Dean Allison makes it a policy of not seeing students." Surprised, yet realizing the constraints on his time, I wrote him a letter explaining what I wanted to discuss. That letter was written four weeks ago, and Dean Allison has not even accorded me the dignity of a response...
...almost impossible to measure the workload of Harvard professors against the standards espoused by administrators. There is no public record of teaching agreements between professors and the University, and department chairmen are reluctant to discuss individual cases. The course catalog lists which professors teach what courses; but because some professors are only hired to teach half time, it is difficult to determine who teaches a full load...
Professors interviewed for this article had different reactions to discussing their own consulting activities. Some were reluctant to discuss who they worked for. John R. Meyer, 1907 Professor in Transportation, Logistics and Distribution, who teaches Economics 1540, "The Business-Government Relationship in U.S. Society," said that "some of it is highly confidential advice to senior management.... Really, I don't think it's other people's business. It's done on my own time and mainly in the summer." He compared his relationship with a corporate client to a doctor's with his patient, and said, "Sometimes it involves high...
Caves, who teaches Ec 2610 jointly with Spence, also declined to name the businesses he had done work for. "I'd rather not discuss them," he said, adding that he had "tried to make a policy of only taking projects with research value...
...delegates will also discuss the future of the American monitoring mission in the Sinai and the planned U.S. replacement of Israeli airfields in the Sinai with two new bases in Israel's Negev Desert. One possible sticking point in the talks concerns Israeli oil installations in the Sinai. The Israelis may seek compensation for these installations; at the very least, they will ask for a guarantee from Egypt to sell oil to Israel or a promise to set up a joint enterprise for exploring the Sinai oilfields. The Egyptians will seek to avoid any such special arrangements...