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Horner says that her primary concern is the educational experience at Harvard. As a University Dean, she is the first Radcliffe administrator to sit on the Faculty's Educational Policy Committee and considers this one of her most important functions, one where her purview includes men as well as women...
...would guarantee Panama "sovereignty over all its territory." To Scali's dismay, this move won the support of 13 of the 15 delegates (Briiain abstained). Scali, who argued that the soverignty question was a bilateral matter between the U.S. and Panama and therefore beyond the U.N.'s purview, finally raised his right hand and cast the third U.S. veto in its 27 years in the United Nations...
...over-refined dialectical mind that leads one into stating that in reality the Afro-American is fully captured only when it is seen that he is at once both African and Anglo-American at the same time as he is equally neither African nor Anglo-American," he said. "This purview alone succeeds in defining the Afro-American in his uniqueness...
...reason for the delay is jurisdictional confusion within Washington's bureaucracy. Officials cannot agree whether bottled water is a "food" under the auspices of the Food and Drug Administration or should more properly be considered part of a community's water supply and therefore in the purview of the Environmental Protection Agency. A bill pending in Congress, sponsored by Democratic Representative John S. Monagan of Connecticut, would help solve the dilemma by giving the EPA authority to set uniform standards for all bottled water...
...most Presidential advisors were also heads of departments; they were responsible to Congress, both through the appropriations process and as Administration representatives. But not Kissinger; his stranglehold on policy, combined with his Congressional immunity, has cut off vast amounts of information on White House policymaking from Capitol Hill's purview. Congressional resentment on this subject reached a high pitch last March, when Stuart Symington, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged on the Senate floor that Kissinger was "Secretary of State in everything but title," and that the appearance before Congressional committees by William Rogers had become...