Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...deputy commisisoner of the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering, Fierra had the MATEP decision dumped in his lap when the DEQE commissioner disqualified himself from the case. An expert in air quality, Fierra is less skilled at administration and has trouble coming to quick decisions. He has the final...
...idea or resurrection before believers' eyes are rarely called upon to make good on the promise. Authors ought to be more accountable, though, and when one chooses to title a novel The Second Coming he'd better deliver some sort of a revelation--epiphany if not apocalypse--before the final paragraph. But Walker Percy has years of experience in promising more than he delivers. His style exploits the worst qualities of that discredited category, the Novel of Ideas: he trots out a series of tired, baldly stated rhetorical questions and parades them in masquerade as the personal dilemmas...
About 3000 alumni will participate in estimating giving capacities and preparing their peers for the final solicitation letter. In spring 1981, Maine will be among the first of the target areas. Three hundred volunteer alumni will form class committees and train themselves in the fine art of fundraising. After several meetings, the volunteers will sponsor a dinner, in an attempt to clinch other area alumni gifts. Each alumnus in the Bangor area will receive a formal case statement on the drive--and then a donation envelope. The whole process should take about six months, Boardman says, adding that virtually...
...fact, Huggins adds, that may have been the overriding factor in his final decision to come. "I felt if I said no, what as I discerned as a genuine, forthright commitment by the president and the dean would've gone by the boards, that it really would've taken the wind out of the sails of the department here," he explains. Had that occurred, Huggins says, "the consequences for the field would have been unfortunate. Harvard makes a difference because of the way the institution is viewed...
More than 75 students staged a rally last May, demanding that the executive committee renew Cudjoe's contract and claiming that "ideological differences between Cudjoe and committee members hindered his chances for reappointment. Freeman denied that ideological considerations affected the final decision, but student reaction this fall will undoubtedly prove irate...