Word: background
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know the committee will pick someone with a solid administrative background and someone who knows Harvard athletics well," Krass said. "I feel confident that whoever they pick will be a strong candidate...
...this has the ring more of a BusinessSchool case study or an Economics Departmentjournal article than a blueprint for the deanshipof what is arguably the most watched faculty inthe nation, then it is not surprising givenSpence's background...
...first time I received a call it was very threatening," said Pei, who is leaving for Washington tonight. "It talked about death. It was given in a very sinister voice and there was Chinese funeral music in the background...
...sing an aria from Die Fledermaus, but the event is still more about swimwear than opera.) During the Prohibition era, it was the East Coast Babylon for bootlegging, brothels and betting, but in 1946 Atlantic City tried to persuade the United Nations to settle there, citing its "historically noncontroversial background." In the late '50s the Chamber of Commerce campaigned to make local newspapers and radio stations refer to cloudy conditions at the resort as "partly sunny...
...Cabinet posts, it is easy to assume that sociological evidence strongly buttresses this % collegiate pecking order. But, in truth, it is nearly impossible to calculate the value added by, say, a Princeton degree compared with one from a selective but less prestigious school. Totting up the comparative educational backgrounds of honorees listed in Who's Who may reveal something about those admitted to Princeton, but little about the quality of the experience once there. For how do you separate out the effects of an elite university from such life-shaping factors as family background and IQ? And when...