Word: role
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greater political role will make the Board--and the Corporation--more sensitive to alumni concerns, without jeopardizing the weeding-out process the Board could perform...
...proctors and other freshman advisers saythat neither time nor knowledge is usually aproblem. They say they do not need to be familiarwith all aspects of Harvard because their role isto guide students to the correct resources. Andmost proctors work out ways to keep in touch withtheir charges, administrators...
Though vehemently denied, the scenario is a likely one, since Cavazos agrees with most of Bush's views on education, which include support for a strong Education Department (Reagan wanted to abolish it) and an active role for the Federal Government. Regarded as a low-key consensus builder, the new Secretary is a stylistic counterpoint to his pugnacious predecessor...
...most powerful investment houses against one another, but the financial muscle behind the bidding is really the legacy of one man: Michael Milken. It is not just that Milken's firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert, is bankrolling the Kohlberg Kravis Roberts bid to the tune of $5 billion. Milken's role is much grander and far more controversial. The boyish moneyman with the tousled toupee and the obsessive work habits has almost single-handedly sparked the frenzy of takeovers and buyouts that has given the Roaring Eighties their name. And his tactics along the way may put him behind bars...
...charges have triggered a vigorous debate over Milken's role in 1980s finance. Is he a megalomaniac who has built a tottering tower of corporate debt? Or is he a financial genius whose funding of unsung, mid-size industries greatly overshadows his role as a takeover player? He has many defenders among buyers and users of his junk bonds. Says MCI chairman William McGowan, whom Drexel helped raise $2.4 billion for building long-distance telephone lines: "When we first went to Milken, we were not even qualified for junk bonds, but he was able to help us. People went...