Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such dramatic revisions in the GNP, retail sales figures and other important statistics occur with maddening regularity. "The numbers are not bad," says Sidney Jones, professor of public policy at Georgetown University. "They are just premature." But the Government is under pressure from anxious investors and executives to report economic data as soon as possible. Observes Robert Ortner, the Commerce Department's Under Secretary for Economic Affairs: "If you want something quickly, you give up something." In this case, accuracy...
Spence has refused to respond directly to the MSA report's criticisms, saying that the faculty committee should explore the options before he takes a position on how to increase the number of Harvard's minority faculty...
Spence said he wants the faculty committee to focus on three areas--a review of past policy and performance, a response to the MSA report, and a set of recommendations for changing existing policy. "By mid-semester they should have a brief but pointed report," said Spence...
Others seemed to agree with the MSA report's conclusion that the University's minority recruitment policy is too decentralized...
...size of the minority faculty became a central point of student activism this year in the College and at the Law School. The Minority Students Alliance--an undergraduate organization--released a report in April charging that the University has failed to actively recruit minorities and calling on Harvard to investigate a "comprehensive plan" to attract minority scholars. The report also says the University is receiving fewer applications than in previous years. And at the Law School, about 50 Black students held a 24-hour sit-in in protest of the lack of minority faculty...