Word: review
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...dean chose Stager to head the committee which was to review the museum's work and recommend for the museum's future. It is strange that the director of the museum should have been the person to lead an inquiry into how it has fared under his stewardship. This was a set-up, but with a twist. Stager wanted the museum not exactly to fold, but to contract radically. Two members of his committee, moreover, would be beneficiaries of this contraction: As directors of the Fogg and Peabody museums, they are to inherit the parts of the collection which Stager...
...through the court system in hopes of upsetting the Pentagon policy. They variously attack the policy as violating the due-process, equal- protection and free-speech rights of gay soldiers. As a collective challenge, the cases seek to remove gay rights from the political arena and force a judicial review by the Supreme Court. The strategy is evocative of the civil-rights struggle, which in the 1950s turned to the Supreme Court to rectify racial injustices...
...achieved their most ardent expression in defense policy, a piece of hallowed conservative turf. Yet he used his position as a director of the A.C.L.U. to espouse such profoundly nonliberal campaigns as defending the constitutional rights of Oliver North, Lyn Nofziger and the conservative student writers at the Dartmouth Review...
...violations. The account stated that the ethics committee had decided to subpoena the diaries after spotting a reference to questions raised by Packwood during a November 1989 finance subcommittee probe into trade barriers erected by Japanese companies. A transcript of the hearing, which the Oregonian says is now under review by the Senate legal counsel, shows that Packwood's questions had the effect of defending Mitsubishi Electric against an attack by a U.S. competitor, Fusion Systems Corp...
...University has industrial-sponsored research sponsored by a number of large companies, mostly in the medical area, but not exclusively," he said. "We had a general review of the nature of the agreements--technical, legal analysis, the University's risks...We also tried to assess the major scientific and academic benefits that we get out of having these kinds of sponsors...