Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate over diversity at the Kennedy School of Government is intensifying this year, as students have called upon newly-appointed Dean Albert Carnesale to initiate dramatic changes in the school's hiring practices and curriculum...
...Albert C. Osborn...
...cheap to lay off an incompetent teacher," says N.E.A. president Keith Geiger. "But I don't want it to be impossible, either." He stresses that tenure was never meant to be a lifetime sinecure but was intended as a guarantee against dismissal without just cause. Says Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers: "An elected politician can't say, 'I'm going to fire you because you didn't support me in the last election...
...more than I've ever spent on a car.) And I won't tell you how I managed to get the price down even that little bit. (All right, as part of the deal, I agreed to buy a second item, for even more -- a letter from Albert Einstein describing Hitler as a lunatic -- and so got a little bit of a break on both.) But I will tell you that when novices like me get into markets they know nothing about, it's usually the beginning...
...think you should pause before spurning the safety of a savings account or Treasury bill just because rates are low. Stocks are no bargain (though some fire-sale real estate may be). And I think that Albert Einstein, if not Marilyn Monroe, is likely to loom as large 1,000 years from now as Van Gogh. So given the choice between a little piece of Einstein for $15,000 or a work by Van Gogh for $15 million (and given $15 million), I would opt for the Einstein, spend a further $28 on socks (to give the economy a little...