Word: informers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Admissions personnel have developed an elaborate communications network to inform desirable students about Harvard, to convince them to apply, and then to pick the fortunate few. Most students' first contact with the Harvard admissions office occurs sometime during the summer preceding their senior year in high school, says! Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, one of several alumni who has come back to his alma mater to attract the creme de la creme of the high school to Harvard...
...Akron law, like those in 15 states, also established detailed requirements for informing a woman of the physical development of the fetus and the potential medical and emotional factors that might affect her if she has an abortion. The court ruled that requiring this type of "informed consent" is unconstitutional. "Much of the information required is designed not to inform the woman's consent but rather to persuade her to withhold it altogether...
...interim report of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee investigating the confirmation of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan was damaging enough. The 46-page text, which was issued last week, accused FBI Director William Webster and then Executive Assistant Director Francis Mullen of withholding information that raised serious questions about Donovan's fitness for office. As a result, the committee charged, the FBI "usurped the Senate's constitutional responsibility" and "compromised the Senate's ability to inform itself...
Under orders from Pope John Paul II, the Vatican appointed Auxiliary Bishop Anthony Bevilacqua of Brooklyn, N.Y., a canon-law expert, to inform Mansour that she must obey Szoka and quit the state post...
...protests have highlighted a growing impatience with the government's methods, all the more pronounced because students were among the most jubilant celebrators when the Socialists came to power in 1981. Although the protesters have remained studiously apolitical, they contend, with some justification, that the government failed to inform or consult the public before announcing the Savary plan. Comparisons with 1968 may as yet be overblown, but the message of the present unrest is no less forceful or urgent...