Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to these two major gains, blacks have also convinced Derek Bok, dean-designate of the Law School, to pressure a construction firm working on a Law School building to hire more black workers...
...called "firing five" are, however, themselves divided. At one pole, Ackermann and Mahoney stand firm for hiring a "professional" City Manager--probably from outside of Cambridge--to run the City. At the other pole, Danehy and Vellucci loudly proclaim their intention to hire someone versed in the rough and tumble of Cambridge government for the job. Crane, with a master politician's instinct for the middle, stays silent, but is thought to strongly prefer a manager with a Cambridge background polished with professional training--someone like his old friend Curry, who was a headmaster of a local school before appointment...
Pennsylvania, Vesper, and Harvard have been negotiating about the possibility of racing each other before all three head West early in July to train for the trials near Los Angeles. So far no firm date has been...
...oriented course than his predecessors, Martin Meyerson and James Q. Wilson. While the basic orientation of the Center has remained armchair--and to all indication will remain so--the Center has begun to do policy-advising ("staff studies") with clients or agencies that request assistance, much as a consulting firm would...
Both members and non-members point to Urban Planning Aid as the kind of enterprise academic people can engage in outside the auspices of the university. UPA is a firm of consultants founded, as Thernstrom puts it, "on the assumption that one of the reasons poor people get screwed is that they no technical competence." The members (two of them, Chester Hartman and Lisa Peattie, are Joint Center members) volunteer their services to represent the poor to development authorities...