Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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ACSR--The Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility is a 12-member group of students, faculty and alumni, created in 1972 to advise the University on the ethical responsibilities of investing. It has no absolute control over Harvard investments, but it does make recommendations to the Corporation...
...been friends and colleagues for 35 years, but when Grosvenor took over the society and Garrett took charge of the magazine, they faced off over budget cuts, editorial control and their strategies for holding on to the society's 10 million members (please, not subscribers). To attract younger readers, Garrett, 59, wanted National Geographic to embrace the news and shed its reputation as a moss-backed wishbook where adolescent boys once made the acquaintance of bare-breasted women. A photographer and journalist himself, Garrett began publishing stories about the Exxon Valdez, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the effects...
Cosseted by the intellectual hothouse of New York City film buffs, Haskell is unprepared for living a life out of her control. A high achiever accustomed to getting her way, she must now deal with the maddening coldness of the medical establishment, along with the crankiness and sorrow of having someone she loves sick beyond understanding...
...Berlin airlift launched by the U.S., Britain and France when the Soviets cut off supplies to the city's western sectors in 1948. But as Paul Craig Roberts, professor of political economy at Georgetown University, notes, "It's a crackpot idea." West Berlin, then as now, was under the control of the three Allies and could be reached through an air corridor to which they had legal access. Getting to Lithuania, whether by plane, train, truck or ship, would mean violating the Soviet border -- as Moscow draws it anyway. "That's a good way to start a war," says Roberts...
Here, there is more room to wiggle. Tougher measures would include shelving arms-control negotiations, reducing Soviet access to high-technology goods and scaling back diplomatic contacts. For dramatic effect, the U.S. could cancel the Bush-Gorbachev summit scheduled...