Word: recommendation
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...propose cutbacks in the forces "which are primarily useful not against the U.S.S.R. but against the lesser military powers in the poorer half of the world, like Vietnam," and in "the vast excess in the quantity of nuclear weapons" that the U.S. now has and continues to build. They recommend that we do without our nuclear bombers and land-based missiles; the nuclear submarine force, the most invulnerable to Soviet attack, could also be substantially reduced...
Another, more threatening, problem remains. A visiting committee currently reviewing the status of the department has reportedly considered a proposal to change the department to a degree-granting committee, which would thus relieve it of the power to recommend faculty for tenure. "We're not out to destroy a department," Robert D. Storey '58, a member of the visiting committee, said two weeks ago. "We're just trying to decide if perhaps Afro-Am would be strengthened by combining it with another department, like Social Studies is." But the department's supporters see the matter differently...
Although the committee report would later recommend significantly increased student input into the University's decision-making structure, Thomson says members of the committee at first violently objected to student representation on the committee. "The issue of student representation was the first and overriding issue which consumed us, and this blew the committee sky-high," Thomson says. "Even the idea of non-voting student advisory members caused several members to say that if students were attached to the committee in any form they would resign. After one of these sessions I went to Merle Fainsod and said if students...
Like Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, the Radcliffe group will examine and recommend vote on proxy statements the college receives from corporations in its $20 million common stock investment portfolio...
...report outlined the employment practices and other activities of almost 45 companies and said the committee "would find it difficult not to recommend that Harvard support a resolution for withdrawal directed to a company that has not disclosed the desired information...