Word: panels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank's dealings with Gobie are being investigated by the House ethics panel. The representative has said that after ending his sexual relationship with Gobie, he hired him in 1985 as a personal aide--using his own money, not congressional staff funds--in an attempts to help Gobie start a new life...
...trial for criminal contempt. Morgan could be freed once the Senate bill is reconciled with somewhat broader legislation previously passed by the House. Meanwhile, on Sept. 20, the full District of Columbia Appeals Court is set to hear oral arguments on a ruling last month by a three-member panel of the bench. The panel decided that Dixon's civil- contempt charge had lost its power to coerce because of the length of time Morgan had spent in jail...
...next victim, according to the Hong Kong press, is likely to be Zhao's political ally Liang Xiang, governor of Hainan, China's newest and most autonomous province. Liang was summoned to Beijing in late July to appear before a panel investigating allegations of corruption on the huge island in the South China Sea. In the governor's absence, Hainan is reportedly being run by a Russian-educated vice governor with close ties to Zhao's conservative, Soviet-trained rival, Premier Li Peng. Meanwhile, the ambitious plans that Deng and Zhao envisioned for Hainan's economic development are on hold...
...response, Spence created a committee to examine the problem, and tapped Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, a man wise in the ways of the Harvard bureaucracy, to chair the panel...
...Verba Committee had proposed the creation of a separate administrative framework intended to move departments away from traditional hiring networks when making tenure decisions. The panel had called for a faculty member other than the department chair to serve as a "departmental representative for affirmative action...