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...composing melodies. George, once the least visible of the group, now focuses his energies on Indian music and philosophy; an occasional contributor to the Beatle songbook, he is the most accomplished instrumentalist. Ringo, a thoroughly unpretentious fellow, is also the most innately comic temperament; he is the catalyst, and also the deflator, of the crew. Most mysterious of all--and possibly most important--is John, the creative mainspring, who has lately grown strangely brooding and withdrawn; he is more thoughtful and tough-minded than the others...
MILLER: We like a company called Exponent, which used to be called the Failure Group. Fortunately, they changed their name. They're a consulting firm with expertise in accidents, like the Hyatt hotel in Kansas City when the walkway collapsed. They did structural analysis there. The catalyst for us was when they developed a relationship with the U.S. Army, outfitting soldiers with the best technology. It has a $10.30 book value, and the stock trades...
...Bernard Steinberg, Executive Director of the Harvard Hillel emphasized on Saturday that the Hillel’s role is to act as a “catalyst for student activity and not a center for action...
Calamities may reinforce reflexes more than they work miracles. This crisis, says clinical psychologist Jeffrey Slutsky, "can serve as a catalyst for reconciliation if the people involved were already primed for it. But it takes more than even these traumatic events to change people's character." In fact, crisis may serve mainly to reveal character, for better or worse. Jeanne, an art director for a magazine in Northern California, was planning her March wedding in New Orleans; her fiance was a New York City stockbroker working one block from the Twin Towers. After the attacks, she expected...
...Pusey announces a two-year fundraising program for the college. The governing boards give $13 million as catalyst for the campaign...