Word: staffs
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...born with a flat twang accent in 1928 in Fort Worth and worked through an M. A. at U. C. L. A. on a Native Son of the Golden West fellowship. With a new doctorate he spent the Korean War as an historian for the Joints Chiefs of Staff. In 1954 he came to Harvard as an instructor and has wandered up the academic hierarchy to full professor...
...administration, May wrote in 1967, "ever has a coherent scheme or an overall plan." There are only some underlying tendencies "which give a basis for predicting how individual cabinet members or the President are likely to react." One of the "tendencics," he acknowledges, is the lobbying of Embassy staff for protection of local investment. "The people who have economic interests in a country are the clientele of the embassy people and embassy cables do reflect this association." But the Peace Corps mission, May says, is as effective a lobby as any. May explains policy decisions simply in terms of options...
...Reagan-dominated majority. At a recent emergency meeting, the faculty overwhelmingly condemned the regents' action as illegal and an infringement on academic freedom. Many feared that the firing may blunt the school's drive to recruit black faculty members, who presently number 25 in a full-time staff of 1,500. Warned the professors: "If a faculty member can be fired for entertaining radically divergent views about the structure of our society and the solutions to its problems, this recruitment program will become a mockery." Risking his job, Chancellor Young backed up his professors, calling the Angela Davis...
...sales last year. Another ex-colonel, Arieh Shachar, took over the money-losing government trucking company called Mifalei Tovala, promising to turn a profit within a year or close down the company. He replaced its ancient fleet of trucks and fired 70% of the headquarters staff, starting at the top "to show the workers that the reforms were just." Shachar also negotiated a new labor contract that increased the drivers' work hours by 15%, with no raise in pay; he accomplished that by holding out an offer of better pensions and threatening closure as an alternative. The first year...
...coaching staff gives the award on the basis of its analysis of the game films. The coaches grade each player's performance by a point system, and award the offensive and defensive winners with name-engraved plaques...