Word: recorditis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When asked earlier this month if she would use her position to try to improve Harvard's poor track record in women faculty hiring, Wilson responded, "the role of Radcliffe in terms of direct hiring decisions does not exist...
...television programming units, including Home Box Office and Cinemax, could mesh with Paramount's film-studio and television ventures. Time's cable-television systems would provide distribution vehicles for that product. Warner, meanwhile, has film, cable-TV and publishing units and differs from Paramount in owning the largest domestic record company. "Time would make a good fit with either Warner or Paramount," says Peter Appert, a media analyst for the investment firm of C.J. Lawrence, Morgan Grenfell...
Though its record on the environment has been spotty so far, the Bush Administration last week took the lead in a major conservation issue by imposing a ban on ivory imports into the U.S. The move came just four days after a consortium of conservation groups, including the World Wildlife Fund and Wildlife Conservation International, called for that kind of action, and it made the U.S. the first nation to forbid imports of both raw and finished ivory. The ban, says Bohlen, "sends a very clear message to the ivory poachers that the game is over...
...House Speaker Thomas Foley. Just as Foley was poised to take the gavel from departing Speaker Jim Wright's hand, a memo from the Republican National Committee was circulating to state party chairmen and G.O.P. Congressmen. Titled "Tom Foley: Out of the Liberal Closet," the memo compared his voting record with that of Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, an acknowledged homosexual. For days, an aide to Republican minority whip Newt Gingrich had been calling more than a dozen reporters trying to get the homosexuality rumor into print...
...much notice would have to be taken? To Scott Peters, spokesman for the pro-nuclear power U.S. Council on Energy Awareness in Washington, it seemed Sacramento voters were not "against nuclear power per se" but "against a plant that had a bad operating record." Peters concluded, "We don't think this interrupts our progress." The contrary view was expressed by Scott Denman, executive director of the Safe Energy Communications Council in Washington. The vote was a "proverbial shot heard round the world," he said, adding, "This is an unprecedented breakthrough for advocates of economical and safe energy and a severe...