Word: abely
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...Japan views Harvard as a pioneer in these studies," said Tadahiro Abe, a visiting scholar at the Kennedy School who is acting as a liaison between the bank and the University. "We would like to take advantage of that expertise in international corporations," he said...
According to Abe, an agreement establishing the post, which will be known as the Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) Professorship of International Development, was signed on October...
...theirs was the clearer view of the country. Warren Burger, who wrote the opinion that freed up the Watergate tapes, was appointed with much fanfare by Richard Nixon himself. Arthur Goldberg resigned at Lyndon Johnson's urging to become United Nations ambassador. L.B.J. twisted the arm of his crony Abe Fortas and put him in Goldberg's place. But when he tried to move Fortas up to Chief Justice, the fear of cronyism generated so much opposition that Johnson abandoned the maneuver. Later, because of financial improprieties, Fortas resigned his court seat...
Unfortunately, as service-oriented publications are snatched up, some of the most incisive new voices in journalism may be lost. Abe Peck, chairman of the magazine group at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, complains that while "there are plenty of magazines that tell you what to wear, where to eat and how to shop," publications that offer a more provocative editorial edge may be an endangered resource. Many analysts feel this editorial quality is more important than most advertisers realize, because it delivers more attentive readers. Some of yesterday's faddiest publications, like Rolling Stone, built on precisely...
...experience parenthood, to have an heir, to ensure that a youngster is not an only child. "In a sense we all have children to use them," says bioethicist Michael Shapiro of the University of Southern California. And motives can be mixed. Mary Ayala has long wanted a third child. Abe points out that "if Anissa didn't survive, we'd have another child in the house to help us with our sense of loss." Human needs are so tangled that no one expects -- or wants -- to create rules setting forth acceptable reasons for having a child...