Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok's April 27 report states that "a general policy of making loans for projects that advance the welfare of the whole population (of South Africa)' are often too difficult to apply in practice"; the report goes on to say that Harvard therefore opposes all loans to the South African government. Yet Manufacturers Hanover's policy is to continue making loans to the government which will, "in (their) judgement, generate improved circumstances for the whole population of the nation." The bank has not made any such loans recently because of "risk factors", but its policy is clearly to continue...
Most of the temporary employees are "in general, not as healthy or as clean as your regular scheduled employee," O'Leary said last week...
...friends," he says. "I happen to have liked these people and I knew a lot of them. I was always conscious of the important role every employee played in the institution." A tinge of paternalism may have colored Pusey's remarks and characterized his administration. But, as General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 points out, fiscal and legal developments of recent years have made the University a more bureaucratic institution...
When President Bok replaced Pusey in 1971, he reorganized the University's administrative structure to accomodate these changes.. This included a shake-up of employee relations, staff. For Pusey's director of personnel, Bok substituted in-house lawyers--Steiner as general counsel and Power as associate general counsel--to handle legal issues related to employees. "There was a definite conscious attempt at reorganization," Powers says. "Bok made this a more business-oriented university, and brought in people to make it more businesslike," he adds...
Major Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, invited to speak at Harvard by the Center for European Studies (CES) and also by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been refused permission to leave Portugal by the General Chief of Staff, Pedro Cardosa...