Word: interregnum
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During the interregnum, Faculty meetings reflected the vacuum of leadership. Debates lengthened and wandered from the issues at question, without the influential voice of a permanent dean to direct the discussions. Meanwhile attendance rose and fell erratically, occasionally dropping below the number necessary for a quorum. The low attendance became enough of a problem to compel the creation of rules requiring the presence at meetings of department chairmen, House masters and certain other faculty...
President Bok's appointment today of Henry Rosovsky as the new dean of the Faculty ends an interregnum in University Hall that was somewhat longer than expected...
...Union's aims, if not its actual demands, and he is one of the people to watch in the coming days. It is likely that he will be out front for the Administration, backed behind the scenes to some extent by Ford. Because of Dunlop's departure and the interregnum in the dean's office, President Bok will probably monitor the progress of the dispute more closely than he did last year...
They fear a long interregnum between the time they start losing money under specific-program grants and the time some of the funds are returned under special revenue sharing. Also, the mayors knew pretty much what they would get under the grant programs, many of which were targeted at cities. Under special revenue sharing, they will have to fight suburban, small-town and state governments for the money. Indeed, with the pipeline to the Treasury being shut off for many programs, special revenue sharing could cause city and countryside to resume the acrimonious struggle for federal money that bedeviled...
...relative anonymity of TIME editors, but much of it derives from Shnayerson's own personality. He has always been known to his colleagues as an intensely private person. John Fischer, Harper's longtime editor who had returned from retirement to see the magazine through its interregnum, first made contact with Shnayerson in early May. He was the only man actually offered the job. He received from Cowles promises of editorial carte blanche and complete parity with Publisher Blair on the executive level...