Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vague reports. "Clouds, rumor and innuendo," is the way one agent summarizes the findings to date. One likely result of the scandal, however it turns out, is a long overdue reform of the page system. House Speaker Tip O'Neill last week appointed an ad hoc committee to recommend within a month some system for housing the pages together, in a dormitory perhaps, and for keeping them under supervision. At present the pages live wherever they choose and roam about Washington in off hours as they please, an arrangement that in view of their youth is a standing invitation...
...attack, so that a war could be pursued after an initial exchange. This would theoretically allow for a limited nuclear war, in which a Soviet attack could be answered with surgical retaliations that would conceivably be halted before a full-scale missile exchange occurred. Other parts of the report recommend establishing "special operations" units (presumably saboteurs and guerrillas) for possible use in Eastern Europe during a war and greatly expanding the Rapid Deployment Force...
...psychiatrist. Served four months. Taught government and law at San Francisco's Golden Gate University before regaining right to practice law in 1980. Now an attorney in Seattle. Says Watergate taught him "the limitations of presidential power. It was a positive experience, but I don't recommend...
...elaborate review system ensures that Harvard will not grant tenure to academics of less than spectacular status. Before a department votes to recommend a scholar for tenure, it must elicit rankings of the leading candidates for the post from a half dozen professors in the field of the proposed appointment. The dean's office requires a department to take these evaluations into account in making a tenure recommendation...
Once a department votes to recommend that Harvard ask a scholar to spend the rest of his life in the Yard, President Bok convenes an ad hoc committee of scholars from Harvard and other universities who carefully scrutinize the candidate's qualifications. After the committee's session, Bok himself makes the final decision on the candidate...