Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welfare is a constant annoyance, crime is a chronic menace. Lindsay increased the size of the police force and appointed as police commissioner Howard Leary, a highly civilized career cop who has helped guide the department into a relatively smooth relationship with blacks. Lindsay has also designated city hall aides to maintain close and continuing communications with the city's several Negro and Puerto Rican communities, heading off trouble before it begins. These measures, plus Lindsay's self-appointment as ambassador to the ghettos, have helped keep New York free of major racial violence during the past four years...
...Remote Relationship. Despite the vehemence of these attacks, Clement Haynsworth's ultimate confirmation seemed more assured than ever. The criticism of his decisions impressed only those Senators who were already opposed to the nomination, while the judge's explanation of his financial interests satisfied many who had been concerned. Haynsworth convinced waverers that his participation in one case-involving a company that did business with a firm in which he had an interest -was justified on the grounds that his relationship was remote. He blamed his purchase of stock in the Brunswick Corp. while its case was still...
...crucial provision of the bill, which has already passed the Senate, forbids the Defense Department to carry out any research unless it "has a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function or operation." Most of the $4.2 million Harvard received in Defense Department grants last year goes for so called "pure research" projects which have no direct military application...
...Coop is ever going to change, now is its chance. To approve any amendment affecting the relationship between management and membership at least 25 per cent of the members must vote. Last fall about a thousand members expressed interest in changing the Coop: this fall at least fifteen thousand have to react. The management plans to publicize the changes widely and to allow voting by mail. Only about 30 per cent of Harvard's alumni ever bother to vote for the Board of Overseers...
...Harvard professors and graduate students working with the Project would be in a consultant relationship to M.I.T. if Harvard did not endorse the Project," Leahy said. "But this is a controversial area and the controversy must be laid to rest before any endorsement," he added...