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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McNamara said he and Corcoran will continue to negotiate with Texaco and will "spend hours on their knees" if necessary to obtain extra gasoline. Referring to probable snowplow cutbacks. McNamara said grimly. "If we have a snowstorm this month, we'll all be dead...
However, the Department of Probation retains a card with the felon's name. Under this system, 61 law enforcement agencies in Massachusetts can obtain the names of persons with felony convictions, Marsha Semuels, a spokesman for the Committee for a Sane Drug Policy, said yesterday...
...succeeding in their chosen professions, and B-school alumni are especially notorious. Slightly under one tenth of the companies on the Fortune 500 list of the largest corporations in the country are run by B-school graduates, and other graduates litter the landscape in other economic interstices where they obtain wealth and exercise power, even if they do not attract fame. The B-school supposedly has a very viable and active old boys network--its graduates look out for each other. As business schools go, Harvard's has the best reputation and is the most influential in the country...
Reischauer flew to Seoul, South Korea, November 17 to help Kim obtain a passport to come to Harvard for post-doctoral work...
Sometimes, it is. A group's ability to construct a coherent political program or to carry out the program it adopts may be undermined by members' unconscious motivations which the group leaves unexamined. For example, if 25 people frustrated with their inability to obtain conventional roles of political leadership join a group dedicated to collective decision-making, the competition that is likely to ensure will subvert the group's aims. The program would be subverted even if the members believe subconsciously in authoritarian leadership...