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Dates: during 1990-1990
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They see Deborah A. Nord, an expert on the Victorian novel who last spring did the nearly impossible--gaining the endorsement of the English Department for tenure at the University. In a shocking move, President Derek C. Bok and an ad-hoc committee of outside scholars rejected her for a senior position...
...must assemble a faculty committee (along the lines of last year's Verba Committee on faculty affirmative action) to suggest sweeping changes in Harvard's tenure system. The use of secretive and capricious ad-hoc committees to advise President Bok on tenure cases should be abolished and replaced by a Faculty-wide system in which no department could block tenure appointments at will. The University should institute a tenure-track system, which would guarantee each junior faculty member a realistic chance of receiving a tenured position...
...Next month Chrysler will launch a national ad campaign with the theme "Advantage Chrysler." Aimed primarily at Japanese rivals, the ads will feature Chairman Lee touting the ways in which his cars are as good as or better than foreign makes. Among the features: air bags as standard equipment, greater cargo room and longer warranties. While denying he was Japan bashing, Iacocca declared, "Japan today is wrapped in a Teflon kimono, especially when it comes to cars...
...indoctrinate children and recruit minors. Half of all current smokers first lighted up by age 15, some 90% before they were 19. Some critics believe the industry is deliberately capitalizing on adolescents' desires to be popular and attractive by attributing those qualities to smoking / in its $2.5 billion annual ad spending. "You certainly don't see ads featuring 65-year-olds," notes Karl Bauman, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health. Thomas Lauria of the Tobacco Institute, the industry's lobbying arm, disagrees: "Advertising doesn't get people to smoke. High school kids haven...
...people to light up. Mark Green's first official act as New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs was to fire off a letter last week to Louis Gerstner, chairman of RJR Nabisco, the cigarette maker's parent company, criticizing the use of a cartoon character in Camel ads. "Isn't this ad campaign an obvious attempt to lure children into smoking?" Green wrote. Meanwhile, New York Governor Mario Cuomo said he would back a bill to ban most cigarette-vending machines because they make state law prohibiting sales to minors "largely unenforceable...