Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moneymen assembled last week in Basel, Switzerland, the 38th annual meeting of the Bank for International Settlements was the occasion for a somber review of the past year's dizzying dislocations in world finance. Last fall the pound was devalued. Four months later came the speculative attack on the dollar that resulted in abandonment of the London gold pool. More recently, France's upheaval put unexpected pressures on the franc. "You can't tell the difference between monetary crisis and noncrisis any more," concluded one official at Basel. "Now it's crisis all the time...
...Kennedy's brain. The fragments were so tiny and so numerous, he said, "it was remarkable that the neurosurgeons were able to maintain the Senator's condition until the last minute." Only after several weeks of intensive microscopic examination of the brain, the vital organs, and an "exhaustive review with members of the medical team," he said, would a complete report be released...
George A. Plimpton, L.H.D., author (Paper Lion) and editor of the Paris Review. Don Quixote of the world of sports...
...Columbia's self-perpetuating Board of Trustees exerts control over faculty and students on most university issues of consequence. Thus Columbia's enormous real estate ventures, which, according to James Ridgway, account for at least half the university's endowment funds, were not open to public or faculty scrutiny, review, or advice. Nor was there any faculty intermediary authority between the administration and the President and Trustees when the students began to protest real estate practices in Harlem. Disciplinary decisions came from the top, rather than from a faculty accessible to student viewpoints. And the President...
...Some area of the Faculty's jurisdiction is due for a review and a special committee is created to undertake the job for the entire Faculty. The Faculty has, for example, just created a special committee to review Harvard's Development Advisory Service, a wing of the University that sends teams of economists to underdeveloped countries requesting a little intellectual foreign aid. This review may take several years; when it is finished, and its report in, the committee will be dissolved...