Word: roles
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When Weicker proclaimed his belief that the federal government should take an active role in promoting and financing higher education at a 1987 congressional hearing, an embattled Secretary of Education William J. Bennett asked in feigned amazement, "You are a Republican?" "Longer than you," Weicker replied...
...counselors. This year, the directors of six programs are female. In addition, summer camp directors, both male and female, often do not even run for Steering Committee because they prefer not to. They find their work as directors more engrossing, fulfilling and challenging than an administrative role as an officer of the Association...
...lower courts found that Hopkins had not proved conscious discrimination by Price Waterhouse. But they also found that the promotion system was so infected with biased notions about women that the burden of proof should be shifted to the firm to compel it to show that stereotypes played no role in the decision to reject Hopkins...
...sting was called Operation Psittacine, from the Latin name of the brightly plumed contraband. Last week the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said that 36 people in six states would be indicted on felony charges for their role in smuggling rare and endangered parrots into the U.S. from Mexico and other Latin American countries. In a two-year undercover probe, the agency seized dozens of exotic parrots worth some $468,000. Such birds, which can be picked up for as little as $100 apiece along the Mexican border, fetch dear prices in U.S. pet stores: $4,500 for a scarlet...
Since it was founded in 1976, Yale's program has assumed the unusual role of training both future corporate leaders and government and nonprofit administrators. While that will continue, Schmidt plans to focus on traditional teaching methods. He hopes to end a debilitating feud between professors of standard academic subjects such as finance and accounting and those, chiefly in organizational behavior, who emphasize role playing and the importance of human relations in settling disputes. "Relations had deteriorated to where faculty members were barely civil to each other," said finance professor Stephen Ross. After last week's turmoil, a new class...