Word: personalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dukakis says it is difficult for a sitting president to have a person go over their head and affect foreign policy, but that sometimes civilians can accomplish objectives which government officials cannot...
...They couldn't have chosen a more symbolically inappropriate person for those times," Fallows says...
...There was a tragic historic accident for Harvard--Nathan Pusey had been a real political hero, but he was simply the wrong person for that job and for those times," Fallows says. "There is no doubt that Pusey's tremendous difficulty even understanding students' [views] made things all the more frayed...
...make the proper decision--University President Neil L. Rudenstine. The process limits the influence of the most qualified judges of candidates, the senior Faculty of their departments. Although the majority of those reviewed by Rudenstine--who is advised by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and five-person ad hoc committee--receive tenure, it is not uncommon for candidates endorsed by their departments to be denied a tenured position. President Rudenstine has an unlimited authority to offer or deny tenure to candidates, regardless of how strong the department's support...
...very honorable man, very sympathetic,very giving," he says. "[West] is a person ofgreat integrity and warmth...