Word: kleckner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dole had the final say in choosing the remaining four Republicans on the commission: Pete Domenici, the ranking minority member of the Senate Budget Committee; Bill Frenzel, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee; Donald Rumsfeld, who served as Defense Secretary under President Gerald Ford; and Dean Kleckner, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Democratic leaders of the House and Senate chose their own batch of household names: Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca; Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn; Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL- CIO; and Robert Strauss, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Congressional Democrats will...
...that the presence of members with corporate ties will mean that any tax hikes will fall on individuals instead of on businesses. Agreement on spending cuts could be hard to reach, since several members have special interests. Weinberger, for example, may resist any attack on the defense budget, and Kleckner may want to protect farm subsidies...
...other appointment news, Harvard gained three new tenured women, all through internal promotions, raising the number of female full professors on the roughly 350-member faculty to 21. The lucky three were: Diana L. Eck, a specialist on Indian culture and religion: Nancy E. Kleckner '68, a biochemist; and Susan R. Suleiman, an authority on modern French literature...
...formed Women in Science. After a turnout of 75 undergraduates for the group's opening dinner, attendance for periodical meals with women faculty has dropped to about 15. Yet Concus says she thinks the organization has facilitated greater contact between women undergraduate and faculty scientists such as Nancy E. Kleckner '68, professor of biochemistry, and Margaret J. Geller, lecturer on astronomy, both of whom have appeared at question and answer dinners...
...Harvard hired Kleckner, now 36 years old, as an assistant professor and promoted her to associate professor a few years later. She was drawn to Harvard and wants to stay here, she says, because of the quality of students and faculty...