Word: flips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slowly toward financial disaster in the last ten years, Bok's men have kept Harvard in relatively stable shape. The University boasts the largest endowment of any and Bok is proud of the fact that, in terms of real dollars, spending has not increased since he took office. The flip side of financial efficiency, however, has been what one official labels the "corporatization" of Harvard. The University, he says, has become increasingly bureaucratized, routinized and inflexible since Bok took office; the result has been a "joyless" administration. Bok and his advisers realize, as Steiner says, that the controls have...
Thus he could keep on doing as well as he did last week, when he won 57% of the delegates, and still lose the nomination. Said a Carter adviser: "Everybody knows that we are not going to get through the rest of it without heartburn. But the flip side of 62% is 38%, and it's just not in the cards for us to do that badly." Nonetheless, because of Kennedy's upset victories last week, he now seems likely to struggle on until the finish, on June 3, when Democrats at primaries in California, New Jersey, Ohio...
...Celtics won the coin flip for the right to choose first in the June 10 college basketball draft...
...because of what they termed their "lingering suspicions" that the State Department's initial backing of the U.N. resolution reflected a growing influence of a pro-Arab group of policymakers in the Administration. Vance denied this was the case. And once again Vance took full blame for the flip-flop on the resolution, saying that his department had failed to follow Carter's wishes...
...officials had first told West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that a boycott was not being considered. Carter changed his mind, and Bonn was given only two hours' notice before the boycott was announced. Said a West German diplomat of last week's Security Council debacle: "The U.N. flip-flop is just one more piece of evidence to support Schmidt's contention that West Europeans must look out for themselves, and protect themselves as much as possible against the effect of these Carter fiascoes...