Word: relevantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The President is also faulted for trying to solve problems by drafting overly "comprehensive" programs and handing them to Congress for prompt approval. Welfare reform, civil service reform, tax reform were all announced with fanfare but have not moved far toward adoption. Congress is hardly blameless since it is more...
The present process for deciding investment policy at Harvard works like this: Four students, four alumni and four faculty members are selected through various means to serve on the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), which studies relevant information on upcoming shareholder resolutions for firms in which Harvard owns stock...
If he is the doyen of cartoonists, Saul Steinberg is also to growing numbers of his colleagues a "serious" artist of the first rank. "In linking art to the modern consciousness," declares Art Critic Harold Rosenberg, "no artist is more relevant than Steinberg. That he remains an art-world outsider...
The Faculty permits students elected to an established committee to address the Faculty only if their topic is relevant to the committee on which they serve. Because the Core Curriculum falls under the jurisdiction of CUE, only members of CUE can address the Faculty on that issue.
Boxcar discovery: requests for every remotely relevant document. Also known as "fishing expeditions" and "give us the warehouse," discovery involves use (or abuse) of pretrial procedural rules to delay and wear down the other side.