Word: result
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision concludes a bitter three-year tenure dispute, which had pitted vocal camps at the Law School against each other and which may now result in a gender discrimination suit against the University...
...competitive business; less than one-tenth make it to the senior ranks. The key to the door, according to professors and administrators, is publication. Trying to juggle research, teaching, administrative duties and maternity leave, women faculty often fall short of Harvard's expectations for publication. The net result is that in the past 10 years only 14 more women have been added to the rolls of senior faculty at Harvard--of 383 tenured professors, only 27 are women...
Texaco's slate is still not clean. The Internal Revenue Service says the company may owe the Government up to $6.5 billion as a result of allegedly underpaying taxes between 1965 and 1986. Texaco's troubles have sent its stock down from a high of $54 in 1980 to nearly $43 currently. That has attracted corporate raiders. Carl Icahn has bought a large block of stock, and T. Boone Pickens says he will follow suit. They are gambling that Texaco, which went into bankruptcy proceedings during the Pennzoil affair, will survive and even make a comeback...
...admiral's proposal to spend nearly $2 billion a year in federal, state and local funds to beef up the war on drugs is the strongest signal yet that the commission believes the IV drug problem, if left unchecked, could result in the spread of the AIDS virus to the heterosexual population. Equally important, Watkins has shrewdly sized up the role the country's health- delivery system must play in combatting the devastation already caused by AIDS -- and found it badly wanting. The chairman's recommendations, which are expected to be approved by the full commission this week before going...
...result of DEA and Customs probes in Mexico, several senior officials have been linked to drug traffickers. U.S. investigators are also pursuing allegations that one Cabinet-rank official accepted payoffs from dealers. At the state level, corruption appears rampant. One DEA investigation tied a large drug operator both socially and financially to five former state governors and at least one current governor. "Corruption has penetrated all levels of the Mexican government," says a ranking U.S. law-enforcement official. "It's vertical, it's horizontal and it's total...