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According to a University report on affirmativeaction, in 1983, the 886 tenured facultythroughout the university, excluding the Medicalarea, included 4.4 percent women and 5.5 percentminorities. By 1986, the pool of 928 tenuredfaculty included 5.8 percent women and 6 percentminorities
...September 21, 1987. In the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington a crowd of journalists and congressional aides is briefed on a new research study advocating an oil import fee. The report makes the front page of The Boston Globe and gets prominent coverage in The Wall Street Journal...
...fanfare which accompanied the release of the report was hardly typical of most academic research findings. Called "Energy Security Revisited," the report was prepared by two scholars at the Kennedy School's Energy and Environmental Policy Center (EEPC) and was heavily promoted by public relations specialists hired by companies who backed the study's findings...
While the study was billed as an attempt togenerate momentum for an oil import tariff, itsucceeded most in calling attention to itself.Many reporters who attended the briefing say thatthey were suspicious of the hard-sell packaging ofthe report and of its funding sources. And thoughCapitol Hill never made much movement on oilimport fee legislation, several major funders ofthe EEPC who opposed such a fee have seemed tomake a point of distancing themselves from thecenter...
...authors concede that the report did nothave the intended effects on public policy norreceived much attention in academic circles. Butthey contend that the report was successfulbecause it challenged an earlier Department ofEnergy (DOE) study and attracted widespreadpublicity...