Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dave's case is not uncommon. Ad Boardmembers say the board is meant to be aneducational tool, but many students who have dealtwith it say they simply felt annoyed and angry.Virginia L. Mackay-Smith '78, secretary of theAdministrative Board, emphasizes the Board is nota court with two sides but a body which tries towork with the student to come to a mutualrealization. "There is an expectation that thestudent will engage in a conversation with theBoard," Mackay-Smith says...
...recent proposal by L. Fred Jewett'57, Dean of the College, would make the Ad Boardless secretive by publishing the details andresults of particular cases without including thenames. Mackay-Smith says she supports thisproposal, adding, "I almost wish we could televisethe meetings with blue dots and bleeped outnames...
This system had its inequities. Bar girls, waiters and others who could easily find American sponsors in Saigon got out, while villagers who had risked their lives to supply vital intelligence to the Americans were sometimes left behind. General Smith, however, did call in 16 U.S. Marine guards from the embassy to keep Vietnamese army and air force officers from elbowing civilians aside and filling the planes. On April 25 he had to summon an entire platoon of 43 Marines to hold at bay frantic Vietnamese airmen who had climbed over the fence at night...
...only enemy action that closed down the runways. Says General Smith: "At first light [on the 29th] the Vietnamese air force took off," dumping loads--sometimes including bombs and sometimes on runways--to lighten their planes. Then ground crews moved bulldozers and other heavy equipment onto the runways--out of "pique," says the general, who speculates that the soldiers left behind didn't want those who abandoned them ever to come back. Amazingly, even then Ambassador Martin would not order a helicopter evacuation. He insisted on fixed-wing flights because they could move more people and refused to admit they...
...trimming payrolls and shifting work abroad. In the past two years, for example, Nissan has closed an assembly plant near Tokyo and eliminated 5,000 jobs, or 7.5% of its Japanese work force. "They just responded by becoming more efficient,'' says Geoffrey Barker, chief of research at the Smith New Court Securities firm in Tokyo...