Word: barker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tall, soft-spoken and described by friends as courteous and modest, Stone collects books and has more than 10,000 volumes. But his deepest interest remains organizing numbers. Says Terence Barker, Stone's successor as head of the Cambridge Growth Project, which has developed a model of the British economy: "He is passionately enthusiastic about economic statistics. All his professional life has been devoted to the measurement of income and wealth, and he is very keen on getting it systematized." Adds George Jaszi, director of the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis: "There is a tremendous...
...Temple Barker & Sloane...
...idea for the fund "spontaneously generated" after Fletcher's death in June, said Fairbank. He and seven other faculty members, mostly from the East Asian Studies Department-including former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, Barker Professor, of Economics formed a temporary committee to begin the long process of raising money...
Martina Navratilova overpowered Sue Barker, 6-2, 6-0 and Kathy Ripaldi defeated veteran Virginia Wade, 6-2, 6-2 last night to give the United States a 2-0 lead over Britain in the 60th anniversary Wlightman Cup tennis competition...
...long prison terms they face in their homeland for high-altitude high jinks. "We are trying to tell them if they want to get back to see Mommy and Daddy, the only time they'll be able to see them is on visiting days," said FAA Spokesman Jack Barker. Indeed, Cuba is uncompromisingly harsh on its airborne returnees, handing out sentences of up to 20 years for air piracy. "There are no air-conditioned cells with televisions in Cuban jails," said Jim Ewing, spokesman for Delta Air Lines, one of the hijacked carriers. "They're tough...