Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several projects Oommen has designed, planned and managed for Harvard. After being graduated from the Graduate School of Design in 1978, he joined Harvard's planning office. He has since been promoted to special assistant to the vice president for administration and his projects and designs have had significant impact on both Harvard and the world of design...
...outdoor track, however, is probably the most extraordinary of Oommen's accomplishments. Its impact will not only be felt at Harvard, but internationally as well, he claims. World class runners who are very close to setting records "may want to come and use the track to improve their time by the small amount necessary," he says...
...simply hidebound insensitive toward crucial minority concerns. One of those times was last year during the controversy at the Law School about affirmative action in faculty hiring. Another time is right now regarding the controversial lay-offs among the University's structural trades workers, lay-offs which impact with disparate harshness upon Black workers...
...DECISION that President Bok makes in the rest of his term is likely to have as great an impact on Harvard's undergraduates as his selection of the next dean of the faculty. From tenure choices to curriculum innovations, the style and the ideas of the number one administrator in University Hall will determine the type of education a Harvard student will receive in the 1980s...
...linchpin of our political system. The current administration expresses its view of democracy starkly by stating that it has a mandate from the American people, though it was elected by a slim margin. Administration officials also said that the half-million protestors in Central Park last year would not impact its nuclear arms policy, holding that elections are when we make choices. Are we then to be mute, wide-eyed observers, pulling a lever every four years...