Word: referred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...OLDEST self-perpetuating body in the Western Hemisphere." That's how one top University administrator likes to refer to the Harvard Corporation, the seven-member governing board with final responsibility for University decisions ranging from expansion projects to tuition increases to tenuring faculty to investment policy. His appraisal couldn't be more accurate--and it suggests some serious problems with Harvard's equivalent of a board of directors. In particular, we worry about the Corporation's total unaccountability to the current Harvard community and its gross lack of internal diversity...
...receive an urgent cable from Scowcroft transmitting the draft of a letter that Nixon intended to send to Brezhnev. Its essence was that Nixon was granting me "full authority." I was horrified. I would be deprived of any capacity to stall. Full authority made it impossible for me to refer any tentative agreement to the President for his approval?if only to buy time. I flashed a message to Scowcroft uncharacteristically objecting to the grant: "I must be in a position to insist to the Russians that I must pass proposals back to the President for his consideration. Any reference...
Sears-who has held five government jobs since 1964, and who run for secretary of state in 1978--is trying to position himself as the front runner, the candidate who doesn't need the convention for recognition. He likes to refer to polls publicized late last year which show him with the largest name recognition and support...
...were raised in my mind," he admitted at the trial. But he seems to have done little about the situation. The defense argued that Stanford's high mortality rate reflected the fact that he took on the most serious cases, but one supporter acknowledged, "I wouldn't refer a member of my family to him." A 1978 Air Force evaluation did find Stanford fully qualified, but two Air Force officers now say that their signatures on the report were forged. For all the claims and counterclaims, no word of warning was sent to Milwaukee when Stanford was assigned...
...possibility of publicizing Willkie's "awful nice gal": "If they want to play dirty politics in the end, we've got our own people ... We can't have any of our principal speakers refer to it, but the people down the line...