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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They have issued directives for various meetings to plan a new organizational structure, and I gather that a new board is supposed to be part of that," Skocpol said this week. "I didn't go and Dean Lewis didn't go, [because] we felt that it made a lot more sense to sit down and have a discussion about mutual concerns and ideas. What it means is we don't like to be ordered to a meeting that has a predetermined goal...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Public Service Disputes Linger | 1/12/1996 | See Source »

...whole committee agrees with that [$100 cap], but no one told [Provost Albert S. Carnesale] there's a Union," Donene Williams, the president of HUCTW, said at yesterday's rally. "So we thought we'd gather outside his office with a little fire to remind...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Union Members Rally to Support Co-Pay Change | 1/12/1996 | See Source »

...ability to neglect student opinions because of three factors. Students coming to Harvard made their choices for many reasons, the dominant being the opportunities offered by Harvard. Harvard's attention to student input is not relevant to most incoming students, and information on it may be hard to gather. College choice is apt to be "sticky": transfers are available only in the first and second year of college, and are hard to manage. Thus college choices tend to be irreversible, and the competition between schools is not expected to behave as a free market after the senior year of high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Should Be Heard | 1/10/1996 | See Source »

...Susan McDougal, are already under federal indictment for their roles in the failure of the savings and loan at the heart of the Whitewater controversy. "The committee is now moving into the Arkansas phase of its investigation," D'Amato wrote in issuing the subpoenas. "We will continue to gather the relevant facts. We will be fair, thorough and impartial." Fairness was a concern to McDougal, who said he would be happy to appear before the panel and take a lie detector test, but wants D'Amato to do the same. He challenged the Senator to "take a lie detector test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WashingtonWHITEWATER ENTERS THE ARKANSAS PHASE | 12/29/1995 | See Source »

...keywords and names. The new center--a branch of the larger Time Inc. library system--is largely computer driven, providing access to a wealth of online databanks, from services like Nexis and Dialog to the Internet. Says Thornton: "There's been a revolutionary change in the way we gather and deliver information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers, Dec. 18, 1995 | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

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