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bank robberies takes place in the seven-county purview of the FBI'S Los Angeles office. The last day without a bank holdup was Oct. 4,1979. Says Lieutenant Joe Patterson of the Los Angeles County sheriffs robbery squad: 'The word is out on the street, in jail, among junkies: 'Hey, man, if you're hurting, go to the bank.' " Even as bank robberies are generally declining in the U.S. (down 11% during the first half of 1983), they are growing more rampant in Los Angeles (up 18% last year). The Friday before Christmas...
Under the dean's purview is much of Harvard's vast decentralized administration, overseeing the work of some 6500 undergraduates and 2000 graduate students, close to 800 tenured and non-tenured professors, and scores of laboratories, museums, and research institutes...
...about equal to the sum of all the other parts. As the Harvard Mart's general manager. Rosovsky does all the hiring and firing of Faculty and support staff, and also decides what kind of academic products will be available to the College's 6500 undergraduates. Also under his purview are about 2000 students seeking advanced liberal arts degrees through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...management tries to tailor their managing style to each individual." Yanker says, noting that this means giving more independence and greater purview to a manager who shows a stronger sense of responsibility or who learns the trade more quickly...
...Affirmative action programs go beyond the purview of the present report, but a few observations may be relevant. In fields where high test scores seem to be a pre-requisite for adequate academic performance, "affirmative action" may imply remedial education rather than lower standards or greater recruitment efforts in very limited pools...