Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...most egregious case of this ego at work is the Faculty Council's resounding rejection last May of the CUE study abroad legislation. The Council's ostensible reasons for its nearly unanimous opposition to the proposal concerned 'quality control' at other colleges, the difficulty of estimating how many students would go abroad, and the logistical problem of creating a bureaucratic structure to monitor the program...
...pursued a labyrinthine diplomacy that finally led nowhere. He had been given some indication that the students would hand over the hostages to the Iranian government-a minimal first step toward their eventual release. But just when the militants seemed about to go along, Khomeini abruptly refused to take control of the captives and put the matter in the hands of the Iranian National Assembly, which is still to be elected and is not due to meet until late May or early June. Carter cut short his Easter weekend at Camp David and returned by helicopter to the White House...
Though Banisadr joined his countrymen in making radical, anti-American statements last week, he also let it be known that the U.S. had overlooked a concession made by Khomeini. While refusing to take control of the hostages, Khomeini said that they could have visitors "under the supervision of the authorities." The earlier restrictions he had put on visits wrecked the U.N. commission that was in Tehran to negotiate last month...
...happen to agree with President Carter that the danger to our country is the gravest in the modern period," said Kissinger. "We are sliding toward a world out of control, with our relative military power declining, with our economic lifeline increasingly vulnerable to blackmail, with hostile radical forces growing in every continent, and with the number of countries willing to stake their future on our friendship dwindling." To reverse these trends, said Kissinger, the U.S. must grapple with four interrelated issues...
Horner reiterated that the programs of the Forum will continue under the administrative control of a new associate dean who will operate from her office...