Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author of the widely cited book, "In a Different Voice," Gilligan received President Derek C. Bok's final endorsement after a review process involving outside scholars and input from students at the graduate school, said Dean Patricia A. Graham. The tenure offer is awaiting routine, rubber-stamp approval of Harvard's seven-man governing Corporation...
...against four other finalists, chosen by an in-house search committee. The final five candidates gave lectures, which were reviewed by the search committee and students, and the committee recommended one candidate to the senior faculty. The senior faculty, in turn, unanimously recommended Gilligan's tenure bid to Bok, Graham said...
Reagan's helping hand might be needed most in Florida, where some polls show Republican Paula Hawkins, also first elected in 1980, trailing Democratic Governor Bob Graham by 10 to 13 points. The President has already visited the state on her behalf once, and one of Hawkins' campaign commercials shows her conferring with Reagan on the White House portico. Hawkins has played up the "character issue" in her campaign, even trying to gain political capital from painful back surgery last spring that forced her to wear a neck brace. In one of her TV spots, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole...
Hawkins has the misfortune of being up against Florida's beloved Governor Graham, a gung-ho campaigner who makes Ronald Reagan look like a melancholiac. He pumps palms and kisses babies with good-ole-boy abandon. He dresses in Cuban garb and struts down the streets of Little Havana handing out cigars and autographed photos. And, yes, he even sings his own campaign song: "You've got a friend in Bob Graham/ Let's send him to Washington and make Florida No. 1 . . . Bob Graham is a cracker/ Be a Graham cracker backer...
...Florida, the drug war is an omnipresent fact of life, so naturally Graham and Hawkins are vocal hard-liners on halting the narcotics trade. Otherwise, Graham is, ideologically, all over the map. But his views appeal to Florida's diverse populace: he is for contra aid and a tough immigration policy, while also supporting affirmative action and increased health services...