Word: processers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...result of that view--most recently stated in his fifth open letter--Bok has strengthened the appointments process in many of the faculties and, unlike his counterparts elsewhere, chairs every ad hoc committee to review tenure appointments. At the proceedings, for which Bok takes anywhere from six to 20 hours to prepare, the lawyer-turned-president, one Faculty member close to the process says, "takes an active and leading part in questioning the witnesses from the departments." Departments know that they cannot slide a candidate past Bok, who turns down 10 to 15 per cent of all recommendations...
...courtroom fastidiousness of mind," as another Faculty member labels it, is most apparent in the process that Bok constantly identifies as his most important task: making appointments. "Care in making appointments is crucial," Bok said in 1976, "for Harvard can easily survive a mediocre president if it appoints the ablest professors, but the institution will go downhill steadily if mediocre appointments are allowed to be made...
Both leaders swept to victory by sizable margins. In the process, they padded their already fat leads in numbers of delegates and disheartened their rivals. Among the Democrats, California Governor Jerry Brown dropped out of the race entirely after winning a paltry 12% of the votes in Wisconsin, the chief battleground. On the Republican side, maverick John Anderson won only 28% of the Wisconsin vote, a third-place showing so poor that it wrecked whatever hope he had left of winning the G.O.P. nomination. It also cast doubt on his ability to lead a vigorous third-party challenge, though...
...there an acceptable alternative? Less than halfway through the nominating process, Carter and Reagan have built leads that seem insurmountable. This is so despite reforms in the electoral system that were supposed to widen the area of choice by taking nominations out of the hands of party bosses and giving a much larger voice to ordinary voters. It is enough to make many politicians, and ordinary citizens, long for the old smoke-filled room. The current system, says Chicago Lawyer Newton Minow, who was Federal Communications Commission chairman under President Kennedy, is "guaranteed to give us bad choices...
...signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty on the north lawn of the White House. This week Sadat returns to Washington for another round of talks with President Carter, to be followed a week later by one with Begin. The purpose of these separate encounters: to keep the faltering peace process alive by making some headway on the complicated and emotional question of self-determinationor "autonomy," as the Camp David accords put it, with deliberate ambiguityfor the West Bank and Gaza...