Word: stepchild
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rugby? Isn't that football's stepchild, a game only played in Her Majesty's Old Empire, a game that is an imperfect cross between handball and soccer and other very un-American sports? Well, at Harvard, nothing could be further from the truth. Rugby as a club sport is alive and thriving, and today's rugby's Beanpot takes place at Soldier's Field...
...years, engineering was a stepchild, shifted around the University and separate from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). In fact, it may be the only field of study at Harvard in which the dean owns a sheet detailing its many identity changes. The brief, found in the office of Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin, is called "Reincarnations...
Prior to Patrick's appointment in June 1992, the office was regarded by many as something of an unwanted stepchild in Harvard's central administration. Control of the office passed from the auspices of the vice president for finance to Sally H. Zeckhauser, vice president for administration...
...just by regions but by neighboring states or even within states. In New England, Massachusetts and New Hampshire are growing strongly, but Connecticut has been knocked virtually prostrate by cutbacks in its three main industries: defense, shipbuilding and insurance. In Texas the Rio Grande Valley, for decades the poor stepchild of the economy, is flourishing because of trade with neighboring Mexico. But other parts of the state are troubled by defense cutbacks. Texas Instruments, after slashing worldwide employment from 70,000 in 1990 to 59,500 today, is hiring people to fill orders for semiconductors -- but simultaneously laying off workers...
Radcliffe's legacy is a bittersweet one. It gave women an education, but in Harvard professors' spare time. It was a stepchild, but its alumnae should be honored, not swept under...