Word: fights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrative improvement that has helped in the fight to eliminate deficits was a change in the way departments request new personnel. Five years ago, each department head would tramp into Rosovsky's office with strong arguments for small increases in staffing, arguments that were hard to refute or refuse. There was no way to pit them against each other or to put the proverbial big picture together. Under the revised system, each year at this time the department heads meet with Kaufmann and other financial officials, and plead their cases. Kaufmann says this set-up means that Rosovsky will...
Timilty probably wouldn't be able to find any more overwhelming issues to run on this year anyway. Busing is done with, despite the political comebacks of Louise Day Hicks and Pixie Palladino, strong performers in the city council and school committee preliminaries. And campaign news will have to fight for newspaper space with the Pope's visit and the dedication of the Kennedy Library, complete with President Carter and Ted Kennedy...
They say that three's a crowd. And when the trio includes Harvard, a state agency and boisterous community groups, it's more than a crowd--it's a fight...
...fight, this time, has been over the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), a Harvard-financed $130 million project that threatens to become a $130 million white elephant...
Officials need not worry, therefore, that the agency will bring increased federal influence to bear on higher education programs. At the least, the department appears to be a new framework for old policies; at most, however, it will require universities to fight harder for federal funds