Word: fletcherize
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...ridicule the notion of giving such high priority to the preservation of tenure in the academic world when the area surrounding the ivory tower is experiencing an economic Dunkirk. Nothing that Michigan is being forced to release several prisoners because the state cannot afford to maintain its penitentiaries. Peter Fletcher, a member of the board of trustees, says. "It's difficult to tell the tax-payers we can't lay off tenured faculty." Fletcher calls the protest over "firing" faculty members "histrionic games," explaining. "You're just laying off people as in other industries...
...Some people are disgruntled in every lottery." Ginny Fletcher, assistant to the masters of Adams House, said yesterday, adding that her office had received no complaints...
Walter B. Wriston, 61. Already well known as the chairman of Citibank, the U.S.'s second largest bank ($102 billion in assets), Wriston has replaced David Rockefeller as the premier spokesman for America's moneymen. A graduate of Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Wriston has pushed Citibank into the forefront of the banking revolution symbolized by automatic teller machines. Low interest rate ceilings on passbook deposits, he maintains, discourage the savings that are desperately needed to spur investment. Says he with characteristic bluntness: "We're being forced to rip off the public...
Organizers of the protest, including Jamie B. Raskin '83, Larry Ronan '78 and Peter -Sacks '81, managed to divert the long stream of marchers back to the steps of Widener. But before the remaining three speakers could deliver their addresses. Philip Martin, a student at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, urged the crowd to march back to the K-School to demonstrate the "life and death urgency" of the Salvadoran revolution...
Although the RRC draws its executive committee and the bulk of its affiliates from Harvard, MIT, Tufts University, Fletcher School of Diplomacy and other area colleges, some fellows regularly travel from as far as Brown University to participate in the program. In addition, Harvard selects about 20 "research appointees" each year. Because of Widener's extensive and well catalogued Russian and Soviet collection (which includes such gems as the Trotsky archive), the center has been able to attract top scholars and speakers from throughout the United States and Europe...