Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular concern to Harvard and other higher education officials is the trend of scientific research funding under the Reagan Administration. In the last seven years the Department of Defense has garnered 90 percent of all new research programs, while the military accounts for more than half of all research and development work in the nation. This trend has diverted funds from the basic scientific research conducted at America's research universities...
...member, Rosovsky says of his comment: "That's the principle of governance. I think power has to be a function of what is being governed and the time one devotes to these issues and also I think to the level of maturity. All I meant to say with that particular remark is that there's a conflict of interest. If you're in a place for four years, you might make the decision the consequences of which don't touch you at all and could have a slight conflict of interest...
Because the movement to organize Harvard's workers is not focused on one particular issue or grievance, union leaders are stressing their autonomy as a major theme, union labor experts and union leaders say. "The campaign is all about the issue of personal dignity, not one particular issue," Kiley says...
Vice president for Government and Public Affairs John Shattuck says that Harvard does not try to or need to encourage legislators to vote on any particular legislation that would benfit the University because it lobbies through the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts, AICUM...
...quite sure [the speech] will be about the importance of public service, about doing something that goes beyond your particular needs," Dukakis says. The Governor, who has spent his entire career in Massachusetts politics, says he will ask the seniors "to commit themselves in whatever way to public service...