Word: edley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, do not extend to Iowa voters; he fervently backs a farm bill that he admits would increase food prices. Dukakis still clings to his widely ridiculed notion that stricter IRS enforcement would slash $35 billion from the deficit. Dukakis does not want to discuss new taxes, claims Chris Edley, his campaign-issues director, because he fears that they would draw attention from his IRS compliance scheme. Gore is equally vague. All he offers is platitudes and a modest grab bag of $16 billion in minor, last- resort taxes...
...help but feel that there's a special burden to overcome in terms of having credibility with students," says Christopher F. Edley, Jr., an assistant professor who last month became the fourth Black to receive tenure in the history of Harvard Law School. Edley and Bell are currently the only Blacks tenured at Harvard, the nation's oldest law school; two other Black assistant law professors are also on the faculty...
...find they have to say `no' to student requests for counseling. But many say that turning students away is not the solution. "It's a very painful thing to do because you do feel that you're here to impart knowledge to students and interact with them," Harvard's Edley says...
...Edley says that although his relationship with his Harvard colleagues is good, he finds "more skepticism, more hostility" among his Harvard Law students...
...There has been a lull in the seriousness of faculty appointing minority members," Edley says. Harvard, he believes, "is doing OK after several years of unsatisfactory performance...