Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explosive growth that has added faculty and research centers in areas as diverse as poverty, the press and the environment--and executive programs which train everyone from new mayors to national security officers--critics have charged that the expansion has left the school too broad and unfocused. Observers of the school say that the next dean will usher in a long-needed period of consolidation during which the school will have to internalize and digest the hasty growth of the Allison years...
Defending his growth strategy, Allison saysthat while his tenure was not without fault, theendowment he built for the school was the mostimportant thing he could have done to secure theschool's future...
...critics have also charged that Allison'semphasis on growth led to a slighting ofcurricular issues for many years at the school.During the last presidential campaign, the KennedySchool's curriculum was brought to nationalattention with the candidacy of Gov. Michael S.Dukakis and was criticized for being tootechnocratic...
...youngest and fasted growing professional school was finally going to come to terms with its curriculum. Putnam, a widely respected scholar and former Government Department chair, said from the day his appointment was made public in March that he would emphasize academics--a clear departure from the aggressive growth plan stressed by his controversial predecessor Graham T. Allison...
...situation as anyone. Bush met with an old tennis-playing crony from his Beijing days, Wan Li, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Afterward, Bush issued a cautious statement that appeared both to back the students, by saying that the U.S. encouraged the worldwide growth of democracy, and to encourage the government, by vowing that he was committed "to expanding normal and constructive relations" with China...