Word: appointment
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...organized labor to win its way with the Carter Administration or the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, despite its heavy campaign support of both. A conservative mood in Washington and the efforts of a newly vigorous business lobby have offset AFL-CIO influence. Big Labor failed to persuade Carter to appoint many of its favorites to high Administration posts. The AFL-CIO also suffered a painful defeat when Congress rejected the common-situs picketing bill. Labor leaders blamed the common-situs loss on their own failure to realize how hard a lobbying effort would be needed. They had no such excuse last...
Since the resignations, the University has provided no further financial data to the directors, nor has it offered any proposals regarding the board's composition, other than the plan to appoint faculty- and members of the administration to the board. This plan was a major factor in precipitating the resignations...
...student proposal that the Faculty appoint a special student-faculty committee on women's studies, endorsed in a petition by 1164 students last spring, was the center of discussion in the Faculty Council's first meeting of the year yesterday...
...letter, the women's group asks the Faculty to appoint a special committee to investigate both the neglect of women's studies at Harvard to date, and to start developing a new degree-granting women's studies concentration...
After several months of debate on the general idea of imposing a core, the Faculty authorized Rosovsky this spring to appoint five small committees of faculty members, charged small committees of faculty members, charged with looking into five possible core areas over the summer. Those committees are now in the process of piecing together their separate working papers-discussion possible course offerings in "Letters and Arts," "History," "Social and Philosophical Analysis," "Mathematics and Science," and "Foreign Languages and Culture"-into an integrated whole, which should be released to the public as early as October...