Word: michaele
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...executive John A. Armstrong '56 and Michael Crichton '64, author of the science fiction novel The Andromeda Strain, which described high-tech efforts to battle a mutating extraterrestrial virus, showed a particular interest in the use of computers for teaching, one overseer said...
Even before his latest coup, he was regarded as the most powerful man in Hollywood. Michael Ovitz, the town's No. 1 talent agent, can make or break a movie project or an actor's career. But as the power broker behind Matsushita's acquisition of MCA, Ovitz has reached an international stature that even legendary moguls might envy. "He is the mega-dealmaker," says an industry executive. "Not only on a film-by-film basis, but on the very largest scale of buying and selling studios. That is the most significant thing you can do in Hollywood...
Major's victory was also a decisive setback for the political fortunes of Michael Heseltine, the former Defense Minister who led the charge against Thatcher and was considered the top contender for her job after he won 152 votes in the first round of a party-leadership contest two weeks ago. Warned that she would lose the second ballot against Heseltine, Thatcher resigned to allow Major and Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd to enter the race...
...have an economy that at best is in a lull, that at best will skirt a recession," said Michael Boskin, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the White House...
...Michael Gaziano, clinical fellow in medicineat the Medical School, presented the Harvardgroup's findings before an American HeartAssociation convention in Dallas last month. Thestudy was performed on 333 subjects--a subset ofthe full Physicians' Health Study--who alreadyshowed some signs of heart disease...