Word: protocolic
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Ford Professor of Social Sciences David Riesman '31, who is co-writing a book about university president searches, said that in the last two decades public advertising has become standard protocol in searches to fill top administrative posts...
...Protocol Problems: When three high-profile Harvard officials walk through a door, who walks first? This seemingly simple conundrum was enough to confuse three of Harvard's most well-known officers--President Derek C. Bok, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Brendan A. Maher and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III--for at least a few seconds as they stood outside the Faculty Club entrance early yesterday. The three were there to attend a one-day conference on Afro-American Studies, and, after a brief conference, apparently decided that Bok--who was the senior official--should...
After a week-long diplomatic gavotte over protocol, representatives of the four factions in Cambodia's civil war were all present in Jakarta last weekend. On hand were Prime Minister Hun Sen and leaders of two of the three guerrilla armies fighting to overthrow him: Son Sann and Khieu Samphan of the infamous Khmer Rouge. The third, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, pleaded a last- minute illness and sent a stand...
...ozone agreement, signed by 59 nations at a conference in London (about 30 other nations were observers), was a historic improvement on the already tough Montreal Protocol of 1987. That pact called for a reduction by the end of the century in worldwide production of ozone-depleting CFCs and halons, man-made chemicals that allow ever increasing amounts of dangerous ultraviolet light to reach the earth's surface. But since Montreal, a consensus had been growing that mere limitation was not enough. All the participating nations agreed that both types of chemicals should be phased out almost entirely by century...
...propellants in spray cans. The fund, proposed long before the London meeting, had been a major sticking point until a few weeks ago, chiefly because the Bush Administration had declined to support it. Consequently, such populous developing nations as India and China continued to refuse to sign the Montreal Protocol. Bush finally reversed himself, under withering criticism from inside and outside the U.S., and India and China have now agreed to sign. They and other developing countries will have an extra ten years to phase out some of the chemicals...