Word: centralization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Such a rift between Faculty members and central administration bodes ill for the institution as a whole. If the University is considering allocating large sums of money, for example, to relocate a graduate school to Allston, develop distance learning initiatives or create a multi-million dollar computer system to centralize finances, faculty members should be, at the very least, consulted, if not actively involved in the decision-making process. Instead, the FAS committee's report noted, "Major decisions involving the commitment of substantial resources...are sometimes first discovered by faculty from the local press." Some FAS members have even suggested...
...central administration is not to view these proposals as a sinister attempt by the faculties to wrest control of University expenditures, but as a reasonable effort to understand what has become an incomprehensible spending system. Rudenstine has said he would "consider" the requests of the FAS committee. For the good of the University, he must do much more...
When Elian was rescued from his inner tube by fishermen on Thanksgiving Day, the first information he gave was his father's name and address in Cardenas. And ever since then, the true relationship between father and son has been a central mystery to this tale. Elian's relatives in Miami say Juan Miguel knew that his ex-wife was planning to flee to America with Elian, and they produce a Sprint phone bill to prove he had called to alert relatives to look out for them. They even say he had applied for a visa for himself...
Windows is the operating system--the brain and central nervous system--of 90% of the world's PCs. That makes Windows not just a monopoly, but a highly strategic weapon as well. It gives Microsoft an unequaled platform from which to launch new products, and it makes it easy for Gates to intimidate other tech companies into doing things Microsoft's way. Software writers, chipmakers and dotcom companies all have a lot to lose if they don't stay on Microsoft's good side...
Ernie Green was one of the nine black students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in 1957. Now he faces attention from a different quarter. The Justice Department's task force on campaign finance has stepped up its probe into $50,000 he gave the Democratic Party in 1996, after allegedly arranging for a Chinese arms dealer to come to a White House fund-raising coffee. The rub for Green is that he told Senate investigators who were trying to determine if he had been illegally reimbursed by fund raiser Charlie Trie that he'd never received...