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Although the Board has gone well beyond its rubber stamp function of a decade ago, the Board's role clearly falls well short of that of a century or even of forty years ago. And while some tenure appointments have been assailed by the Board, overseers say, real challenges are very infrequent. Most tenure cases are decided in a joint Overseers-Corporation committee, whose staff flags problematic cases...
...impact of the disease and organized substantial AIDS education efforts. Princeton's health services began selling condoms this year for the first time in its history, says its director, and Dartmouth's health services achieved national notoriety when the school distributed safe sex kits that included condoms, lubricants and rubber dams--used during oral sex--at registration...
...took two undergraduate degrees in a rigorous five-year program that had him enrolled in engineering courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in liberal-arts studies at Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh. Reed served in Korea as an Army Corps of Engineers officer, then briefly joined Goodyear Tire & Rubber as a trainee. In 1965 he earned a business degree from M. I. T. 's Sloan School of Management, signing on after graduation with Citicorp's predecessor, First National City Bank. Within five years, Reed found himself head of the bank's notoriously disorganized back-office operations, which were plagued...
What's fashionable and formfitting on the beach this year? Answer: the rubber look. Robin Piccone, a California designer, has set off a sizzling fashion wave with bathing suits made of neoprene, the synthetic rubber from which scuba-diving wet suits are made. The material is both cool -- air circulates freely through the fabric's myriad pores -- and cosmetic, since it streamlines imperfections on otherwise delectable forms...
...first truly democratic legislative election in the Philippines since Marcos abolished the old Congress in 1972, later to replace it with the unicameral National Assembly, his rubber-stamp parliament. The new Congress, which convenes in July, will take over the legislative powers that Aquino has been exercising by decree since Marcos' ouster in February 1986. Last week's election was the final step in restoring a system of checks and balances under the terms of a new constitution that was approved in a national referendum last February...