Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...development of technology for teaching, Harvard lags behind several other leading schools, including Carnegie-Mellon University and Dartmouth College, overseers said...
Michael Boskin, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers; Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., Rockefeller Foundation director, Roger B. Porter, chief domestic policy adviser to the Bush Administration and IBM professor of business and government at the Kennedy School; and Neil L. Rudenstine, executive director of the Mellon Foundation and former Princeton provost, are in the poll...
...That raised monthly costs for householders with variable-rate mortgages and made borrowing more difficult for new home buyers. In kitchens and corporate boardrooms across the country, worried consumers and executives were examining their budgets and rethinking their spending plans. Notes Alan Meltzer, a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University: "People don't know what kind of environment they will be in, so they are postponing decisions...
...author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (copies sold: 1.4 million), has limbered the lobes of executives at companies as varied as IBM and Patagonia by helping them learn the basic perceptual skills required for drawing. Says Robert Kelley, adjunct professor of business administration at Carnegie-Mellon University: "The vital question American businesses face is to determine if they are going to require creativity on a regular basis. If so, they need talent in place, and no one knows how to do this very well...
...fans attending Princeton games, he said he'd love to see more fannies in the seats. "But there are a lot of All-Americas over in the library, and there is nobody there cheering them on." Says William Bowen, the former president of Princeton, now head of the Mellon Foundation: "He is a healthy antidote for everything that is wrong in college athletics. He understands the place of the athlete in the university...