Word: governance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WORKER empowerment is the central theme of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers' (HUCTW) campaign. The campaign holds that workers at Harvard deserve a role in policy making, enabling them to decide on issues that govern their working relations and their compensation...
Brennan, who occasionally lectures at the Harvard Law School, said that as the relationships between physicians and medical institutions evolve, "the ethical principles that govern the profession must change...
Students will elect 11 candidates who will help govern the $60 million corporation along with the corporation's president and the Coop's 11 stockholders, made up of members of the faculty, administration and alumni...
Others, however, are already thinking beyond existing technologies. Johan de Kleer, a respected knowledge-system designer at Xerox, envisions an all- purpose electrical diagnostician that would have specific knowledge, such as the various laws that govern electrical flow and conductivity. But it would also have the common sense to decide whether it was faced with a broken VCR or a broken computer. To build this system, de Kleer has spent ten years codifying what he calls "qualitative" calculus that will provide the language to build "common-sense physics." The problem with common sense is that it requires the computer...
...cities and towns. The exercise in democracy -- until now the country's mayors have been appointed by Bogota -- is designed in part to give cities like Medellin new powers to fight such menaces as organized crime and drugs. Some feel that an administration with a direct mandate to govern will find it easier to face these challenges than an outside appointee with no popular support. Yet many fear that decentralization of power will make cities even less governable than in the past. Nowhere are the concerns greater than in Medellin, where the cartel, a loose association of drug lords...