Word: abell
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Finally, Harvard announced this week that Associate Professor of Economics Andrew B. Abel won the 1984 "Graduates Award for Good Teaching in Economics." The $5.000 award was established nine years ago by Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith to encourage good teaching for graduate students...
...members in the fading domestic steel industry; following heart surgery; in Whitehall, Pa. After quitting school at 14, he went to work in a St. Louis foundry for 250 an hour, became an active unionist who rose through the ranks and survived a bitter insurgency fight to inherit I.W. Abel's mantle only to see the Steelworkers' membership plummet by half during his term from a 1979 high of 1.4 million...
Meanwhile, the government of Amin Gemayel announced last week that "new difficulties" had prevented Lebanon's multitudinous factions from agreeing on a time and place for their national reconciliation meeting. "New" difficulties? The problems seemed as new as Cain and Abel. If Lebanon's warring sects are given a chance to disagree, they will. This time, Suleiman Franjieh, a former President (1970-76) and one of the leaders of the Syrian-backed National Salvation Front, announced that he would not attend any conference held in Lebanon, while Camille Chamoun, head of the right-wing Christian Lebanese Front, declared...
...L.A.O.O.C. will have generated another billion in commerce and, while accepting no charity, will have promoted millions for youth organizations. If the most joyful ambition of the Games is realized, a 10,000-man-woman-and-child relay team of torchbearers will connect the country?from 1912 Olympian Abel Kiviat to retired Baseball Star Johnny Bench to the ordinary jogger in the street?and along the way $30 million could be the gain for youth...
...didn't even know it was missing before that," Abel said yesterday...