Word: purview
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...answers from three Faculty members and one administrator on the committee: student government will "ultimately," "inevitably," and "absolutely" remain "advisory." And when students on the committee suggested abolishing the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities and substituting a student judicial board, Dowling told them that disciplinary matters are "beyond the purview" of the committee. This week two student members of the committee reacted strongly to these proclamations by advising the current assembly to oppose the committee's final recommendations if they do not include "genuine power and influence" for the new government...
...time. He should also abide by the HIID charter, which states that the Faculty Council "shall consider all matters requiring or likely to require the action of or attention of the President and the Corporation." The charter also states the "Corporation appointments in the Institute" shall be "within the purview of the council...
...offered Arnold C. Harberger the top position at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) without consulting HIID's Faculty Council, much less warning them that he was going to make the offer. The HIID charter explicitly states that "Corporation appointments in the Institute shall be within the purview of the Council...
With 15 states and nearly a third of the U.S.'s population under its purview, our Chicago-based Midwest bureau is never short of stories. But last week, with the embargo of Soviet grain sales sending shock waves through the Great Plains and a herd of presidential hopefuls campaigning in Iowa before the state's party caucuses, the bureau's correspondents found their list of assignments unusually heavy. Says Benjamin Cate, who has been Midwest's chief since 1975: "It was our busiest week with breaking stories since our cover on the Big Freeze...