Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Convention members say the Independents treat residency as a hiring requirement anyway, and the liberals consider the law a tactic for promoting the patronage system that allows friends of committee members to get jobs in the school system no matter what their qualifications. To cut down on possible patronage, Convention members pushed for the creation of the position of personnel director to standardize hiring practices...
Members of the Quality of Life Committee who have taken stands on the issue of stopping Radcliffe, are working to draw as many citizens to the meeting as they can. Their eventual goal, however, is to stall Radcliffe long enough to change the state law, yet another tactic in the continuing battle to "save the hill...
Members of the newly-formed Quality of Life Committee, which split from Neighborhood Nine three weeks ago because they wished to stop construction of the facility altogether said last week however, the down-zoning petition was only a stalling tactic...
...more than a little annoyed." Norton resigned his position, saying that the committee presented its viewpoint, but as the school has a distinctly different approach, continued meetings are purposeless. Norton feels there is no clear way of identifying which side is "right" and which is "wrong." The best tactic now, he says, is to appoint a wholly new committee, "get a new broom and let it sweep for a while." Visitors reported Hidetada Sasaki and Frederick Rose also resigned in protest of the Overseers' action but despite repeated attempts to contact them, they were unavailable to confirm those reports. Jonathan...
...request to have the city purchase the Harvard-owned property is a stalling tactic, to hold the bulldozers back until the group can ask the state to consider changing a state law to make all academic institutions in Cambridge conform to zoning regulations...