Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Delivering the second of his six Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John L. Ashbery '49 yesterday discussed how 19th-century writer Thomas Lovell Beddoes portrayed images of death in his works...
Professor of Science Edward O. Wilson, who has had several books published by the Harvard University Press, including his Pulitzer Prize-winning In Human Nature, said Rosenthal's best qualities have been keeping editorial standards at very high levels and maintaining an excellent relationship with faculty members...
...fund a rebel army and enforce a trade embargo against Nicaragua. We pay Honduras to house the Contras. We even send money to right-wing think tanks in Costa Rica in an attempt to destabilize the regional negotiations of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...
...makes its copiers, as one of two winners of the 1989 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The awards, named for the Commerce Secretary who died in 1987, were , established by Congress to motivate U.S. companies. Given for the first time last year, they have already become a sought-after prize in corporate America. Collecting the other 1989 award: Milliken & Co., a leading textiles manufacturer based in Spartanburg, S.C. Bush, who has seized the quality banner to promote American competitiveness, presented the awards at the Commerce Department before 500 business and Government leaders...
When she flew south to Montgomery, the "cradle of the Confederacy," in May 1988, Lin was excited but apprehensive. The material she had been sent from the law center included videotapes of the PBS series Eyes on the Prize, the book that complemented it and a short documentary on the Ku Klux Klan, one of the groups whose activities the SPLC monitors. Before receiving all this, Lin knew very little about the civil rights movement. She wasn't even born when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, the arrest...