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...transformations: they are in part problems of standards and accuracy, and the way political opinions are passed off as social "science." I developed the analysis on one concrete case in my book The File, triggered by Ladd-Lipset's "The 1977 Survey of the American Professiorate," and a review in the New York Review of Books of Education and Politics at Harvard by Lipset and David Riesman. As it happens, Seymour Martin Lipset is a member of the National Academy of Sciences...
...report, prepared by an ad hoc committee, also recommended that Chancellor Joseph M. Duffey and the board of trustees ask the Defense Department and congressmen for a review of a policy prohibiting homosexual recruitment by the military...
...also a budget of $4500, as compared to about $350 for an average house production. While the Experimental Theater grants much less money--around $250--a slot there gives directors an opportunity to try out creative ideas without worrying about making a profit--all shows are free--or being reviewed--the Ex has a strict no-review policy...
Under the peer review process, federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation or the National Institute of Health call in outside experts to judge proposals for experiments or construction projects based on merit, the competence of the institutions, and the possible impacts of the proposals' results...
Smaller universities charge that the larger ones are using "an old-boy network," in the words of a Senate aide, to keep federal funds among them-selves, while large universities such as Harvard claim that the peer review system makes the most efficient use of the taxpayers' dollars...