Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will stay to see the fund drive through--at least another three years--but declining to make a more definite statement. Friends wonder what Bok will do when he leaves Cambridge, still a relatively young man but without an academic career; Bok himself is unsure. Meanwhile, Bok continues to insist that he derives the daily "enthusiasm and spontaneity" which he feels being the president of the nation's oldest university needs. "Its affairs matter to me and are endless in their variety," he says. Why? Bok shrugs his shoulders. "Because Harvard is Harvard...
Because of this almost unbridled corporate autonomy, advocates of industry reform insist on more than federal regulation. The Corporate Democracy Act would...
...Harvard. The University, he says, has become increasingly bureaucratized, routinized and inflexible since Bok took office; the result has been a "joyless" administration. Bok and his advisers realize, as Steiner says, that the controls have "no doubt had a negative effect on the 'feel' of the University," but they insist that they had little choice. "Harvard does run more like a corporation," says College treasurer George Putnam '48, "because it is a corporation...
...populations of Arab states that reluctantly offered them shelter, the Palestinians have transformed themselves from a dispirited band of exiles into a dispossessed people with a purpose, fueled by stubborn memory, anger and a sense of injustice. Their leaders, and the Arab heads of state who back their cause, insist that there can be no broader peace in the Middle East without a solution to the Palestinian problem...
...LONG AS your expectations are reasonable, as long as you don't insist on wispy concepts like fairness, politics makes perfect sense...