Word: joined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Litwack said she hoped her work--which includes portraits of Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner, Brandeis Professor Sissela Bok and Margaret Heckler, the U.S. ambassador to Ireland--would inspire young women to join male-dominated fields such as engineering and the sciences...
...Howard, and the student body of Lincoln boasted Thurgood Marshall, not to mention the future presidents of Kenya and Nigeria. But with the 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the need for Black colleges seemed to diminish, and the top Black minds began to join faculties and student bodies at formerly all-white institutions...
...time, schools like Harvard did not see fit to extend invitations to those scholars to join their faculties, even if for only a brief period of time. But the times have changed...
...least bit interested in living with a bunch of old people," says Edward Shanley, who teaches the Origins of Science. "The people who are married will typically be owning their own homes in easy commuting distance. You'll never get them to join a retirement community--not while they are married. They won't give up their homes--their mortgages are paid...
...copycats are breaking away. Last week officers of nine leading computer companies -- among them Tandy, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard -- gathered in a Times Square hotel ballroom to declare their independence. The computer makers, who collectively sold 50% more personal machines last year than IBM did, plan to join ranks with 55 other manufacturers and suppliers to develop their own standards for the equipment's inner workings. By creating their new system, dubbed Extended Industry Standard Architecture, the renegades are betting that the $39 billion personal-computer business has grown large enough to support yet another distinct standard, in addition...