Word: governance
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...Board and to Educational Testing Service (ETS), the company hired to actually design and administer the SAT. Some schools have conducted small-scale evaluations of the SAT on their own; others are only vaguely aware of the specifics of the debate over standardized testing. But the people who govern admissions tend to share a common perspective on the SAT debate: You can find a handful of studies to endorse any position--pro or con--and at this point, there isn't enough evidence to prompt a retreat from reliance on the test...
...first interview after being sworn in, Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou had mixed emotions about the U.S. and its relationship to the Greece he will govern. Excerpts from his session with TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn and Athens Reporter Mirka Gondicas...
...arms deals. Sales to South Africa, Chile and Argentina were discouraged because of those nations' domestic policies, and an unofficial ban was placed on future sales to Libya after its invasion of Chad, a former French colony. "Right now we're in a period of reflection," says a top govern ment minister. But Mitterrand by no means wants France out of the business: on a visit to Saudi Arabia last month he assured King Khalid that sales to the Persian Gulf region would continue. They discussed potential Saudi investment
Arguing that Cambridge residents are "directly affected by everything that Harvard does," city councilor Alfred E. Vellucci proposed last night that city manager Robert Healy be allowed to sit as a voting member on the corporations that govern Harvard and M.I.T...
...fiscal worries weren't enough, the University's neighbors grew increasingly restless as the summer wore on. In Boston, the city council passed and Mayor Kevin H. White signed into law new regulations governing recombinant DNA research which will govern, among others, the Med School. And in Cambridge--after decades of attempts--the city government finally gained concrete control over future University expansion, passing a law that subjects Harvard and other large institutions to zoning controls. The law--heralded as the start of a "new era" by city officials--requires city approval of any major developments in residential neighborhoods...