Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future investment banker," says Harry Friedberg, 21, who used the $17,000 he made trading options last year to pay his tuition and room and board. But now, he says, "I'll look harder at marketing." For Neil Donnenfeld, 25, the panic only confirmed a decision last year to aim for a corporate career. Before he entered Wharton, he had been a broker at Evans & Co., making $75,000 a year. "I found the life-style absolutely unrealistic," he says. "I mean, how much champagne...
...months remaining in his term, not just a lame duck but a crippled one. One after another, his major goals for this fall have gone aglimmering: the appointment of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, the hope to win renewed funding for the contras in Nicaragua, and his aim of pushing through a budget plan that would protect defense spending without raising existing taxes or imposing new ones. The stock-market plunge only magnified his new aura of ineffectiveness. Through it all, he and his aides were hoping for a grandly choreographed summit with Gorbachev to salvage...
...There's some drop-off [in the number of science concentrators] because we don't always do as good a job as we could," Pilbeam said. "The aim is to attract more people and hold more people in the sciences...
...Iran and Iraq subsided. But our presence in the Persian Gulf put the spotlight on our allies--the Kuwaitis and the Saudis--and the U.S. as new targets in the war. The unnecessary intervention into the area didn't silence the guns so much as give them something to aim...
Last week, Bok again addressed the competitiveness issue--one constantly harped on in Congress--in a speech with Stanford President Donald M. Kennedy '52 in Los Angeles. In his remarks, Bok took aim at the Reagan Administration for neglecting long-term spending for university research and facilities. Only with such aid, Bok said, could universities keep pace with world-wide research and take a larger role in improving American economic competitiveness...