Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...element of the Nixon proposal is the elimination of congressional control over the Post Office. The Nixon reform would establish an independent Government agency called the U.S. Postal Service to be run by a nine-man board of directors, seven of whom would be appointed by the President, subject to Senate confirmation. The office of Postmaster General, a Cabinet-rank post, would be abolished...
What will happen? If the Soviets could have their way, they would excommunicate the Chinese from international Communism, get a resounding endorsement for the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and re-establish Moscow as the undisputed leader of the world movement. But the hosts are certain to have to settle for much less than that...
...letter says, "Will you advise me as promptly as possible, by telephone or letter, whether you would prefer our committee to establish the facts on the basis of the relevant evidence submitted to it on May 27, 1969, or would prefer to elect (for purposes of the inquiry by the Committee of Five) to accept the findings of fact of the panel of the Committee of Fifteen...
Under present circumstances it is impossible to establish guidelines to distinguish acceptable from unacceptable political conduct within the university in a way that will appear just and equitable to the interested parties. The significant dividing line is not between faculty and students. Instead, the situation is one where those opposed to the war, and now even more opposed to those aspects of American society they hold responsible for the war, feel a moral compulsion to act in ways that others regard as merely criminal. Faculty and students fall on both sides of this moral and political dividing line, though...
...letters called Steinberg "stimulating, clear, and penetrating--excellent by all Harvard standards." Robert D. Manz '70, who together with Udayan Gupta '71 organized the letter writing, cited Steinberg for his efforts to establish personal rapport with his students. "He made an effort to get to know all his students by their first names, for example," Manz said...