Word: would
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Council came to the rescue of the fiscally troubled Phillips Brooks House with a donation of $18,000 to make sure that the public service organization would not have to cut community services...
...Report, which called for increased administrative involvement in the selection of the Board of Overseers, one of Harvard's two governing bodies. Recognizing that the Board of Overseers is meant to be the representative voice of the alumni and not the administration, the Council strongly opposed any proposals which would allow the administration more power to hand-pick candidates for the Board of Overseers or create a structure which favored administration-backed candidates...
...possible that someone at the staff level would see that and would think, "Aha, the boss wants...
...short-tempered and occasionally imperious. During one memorable speech last year, he accused a British representative on the 16-member European Commission of being "a lackey of the Labour Party" and referred indelicately to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as "fat-assed." His blithe contention that eventually E.C. officials would preside over 80% of the national economic and social decision making now conducted by individual countries infuriated Britain's Margaret Thatcher. So does his next major goal: replacing each nation's currency with a unified European monetary system. Delors rarely takes on Thatcher directly (surely a wise decision...
...manufacturing regulations remained rampant. The new E.C. chief quickly realized that the elimination of such impediments could not be accomplished within one four-year term of office, so he chose the end of the following term, 1992, as the deadline. At the time, Delors did not know that he would be reappointed to office and would preside over the transition to a new Europe...