Word: mcpherson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago, Peter McPherson, 41, was breakfasting in Beirut when there was a shattering explosion in the air. He leaped to his feet to watch a plummeting Syrian MiG. The reality of his job as Reagan's Special Representative for Relief and Reconstruction in Lebanon came home. Raised on a Michigan farm of 500 acres, McPherson now tends U.S. aid in 60 countries round the globe...
Just off old Highway 81 near McPherson, Kans., writes Jan Harold Brunvand, there is an unmarked lane known to young couples as Hookman's Road. One night, a teen-age boy and girl were parked there when they heard over the car radio that a killer with a hook for a hand was on the loose. The girl became frightened and demanded that her companion drive her home. Angry, and perhaps a bit uneasy himself, he roared off abruptly. When they arrived at her house, he went around the car to open her door. Dangling from the handle...
...Harvard and Bendix who is now a vice president at Seagram. Perhaps because of former Dean Arjay Miller's long experience at Ford, Stanford tries particularly hard to blend the academic and the commercial. After learning that its students' writing ability was, as Business School Dean Rene McPherson said, "shockingly bad," it began to evaluate students' papers for prose style and to have oral presentations taped and judged for coherence. Miller also insisted on broadening Stanford's curriculum to include courses on government regulation and other aspects of public management...
...impoverished Sierra Leone weighed in with $90,000. But the pledge that probably pleased Zimbabwe most came from the U.S.: $225 million over the next three years. "The creation of Zimbabwe is one of the most remarkable political and diplomatic achievements of this generation," declared U.S. Delegate M. Peter McPherson, newly appointed head of the Agency for International Development. "In committing our support we are also providing support for peaceful settlements to international conflicts...