Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While most medical schools nationwide are struggling to cope with drastically falling applicant pools, Federman--who is the dean for students and alumni at Harvard Medical School--says his institution is still in good shape...
Lewis admitted that his speed has dropped fromhis blistering championship pace. But he stillworks out to keep his fingers in shape bycompeting in intramurals, practicing karate, andtyping everything from homework assignments toletters...
Iacocca, who has always been viewed more as a charismatic leader than as a hands-on manager, seems to relish the crisis. While Chrysler's road will be rough, the company is in far better shape than it was when Iacocca took over in 1978. This time Chrysler will benefit from its diversification into financial services, which provided $284 million in profits last year, and from its rapid expansion into Europe. By selling Gulfstream, 45% of its shares in the Japanese automaker Mitsubishi and other assets, Chrysler will generate more than $2 billion to add to its cash kitty...
History proceeds in gossip and fractals. Fractals are the mysterious and apparently irrational forms proposed by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, who says that reality has shapes undreamed of by Euclid and surprises that ridicule the idea of order. The shape of a mountain is not a cone. Clouds, coastlines, tree branches, commodity prices, word frequencies, turbulence in fluids, stars in the sky, reputations, fame, the passage of history itself (think about the past ten months) -- all these are fractal shapes...
...mind is the grandest, most mysterious fractal. It takes its shape from what it holds, and therefore, Zen-like, sometimes grows more graceful because of what it has kept...