Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard fought hard last February to retain its share in administrative control of Boston City Hospital after B.U.'s bid to capture sole authority...
...because B.U.'s faculty lacks the power and cohesiveness necessary to determine the fate of a B.U. president, the president -- with a discipline code -- can retain both defense contract research and the less genteel forms of military support. Silber, with control over B.U.'s purse strings, does not need the faculty to legitimize his position. But although Bok now seems to believe that the protest over ROTC would not threaten the Faculty's research, only the Faculty could bring Harvard ROTC back...
...this month by representatives of the Laotian government and the pro-Communist Lao Patriotic Forces, formerly known as the Pathet Lao. The meticulously detailed accord establishes a provisional coalition government in which each side will have five Cabinet ministers, including a Deputy Premier apiece. The present Laotian government will retain five portfolios - finance, defense, interior, health and education. The Communists will be in charge of foreign affairs, information, public works and transportation, economic planning, tourism and religion. (Nearly all Laotians are Buddhist, including most of the Communists.) The top post of Premier will go to an individual...
...powers and Carl Gustaf's role will become symbolic and ceremonial. He will no longer, for example, have the authority to appoint new governments, endorse legislation, or be commander in chief of the armed forces. One personally important right that the somewhat shy, sports-loving new king will retain: he can choose his own queen...
...attempt here to go into the mechanics of winning a presidential election. The point is, however, that there is much to be done if the center of power is to be captured, and this necessarily attracts to the power center people who will do almost anything to acquire and retain that power. High return invites high risk...