Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vernon was also a world-class rower who continued to row with Cambridge Boat Club until last year. He broke the world record for his age group in the Crash-Bs, an indoor rowing competition, while...
...both ways. Corporations that are often pictured as the corruptors of innocent pols are now complaining that they have been pressured to give with threats of adverse regulations, and many of them are tired of the shakedowns that accompany each election cycle. The Committee for Economic Development (CED), a group of powerful business and educational leaders, has called on Congress to pass the Shays-Meehan bill. The response was a threatening letter by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Tenn.), the GOP's anti-reform attack dog in the Senate, recommending that the CED's members publicly disclaim the report...
Beyond the anecdotal evidence of success stories, is there any evidence that the private groups would do better on the scale at which government agencies operate? Some volunteer organizations can thrive on a shoestring budget, but others are plagued with at least as much administrative overhead as the Department of Health and Human Services. Furthermore, government agencies, despite all their inefficiencies, have built-in oversight procedures and are always directly accountable to a higher authority, as well as, indirectly, the voting public. Would a private group be under--or be willing to submit to--such oversight...
...event was coordinated by the Women's Leadership Project (WLP), a student group founded in 1988 dedicated to helping women succeed at Harvard and in the world. WLP board members chose the conference participants from about 100 applications last spring...
Participants said the conference was extremely rewarding, helping them to consider issues relating to women and society while surrounded by a group of talented peers...