Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appraisal of President Reagan's proposal to develop a defense against nuclear missiles. But it comes from the only man who had a hand in both those decisions, 44 years apart. As a young refugee from Hungary, Edward Teller was part of the group of physicists who persuaded Albert Einstein to draft his famous 1939 letter advising F.D.R. that a nuclear bomb could be designed. Teller went on to help develop it and, in the 1950s, win universal recognition as the "father of the hydrogen bomb." Now, gray and limping at 75 but booming out sharply worded opinions...
...opened between the new jobs that are being created and the skills of available workers. This skills shortage afflicts not only laid-off workers in fading industries, but also young people just entering the work force and wage earners already on the job. Each segment needs massive retraining. Says Albert Angrisani, Assistant Labor Secretary for Employment and Training: "Everybody, no matter what the occupation, has to understand that the skills they come out of high school or college with are not going to get them through a lifetime of work...
Accompanying the students are academic dean Albert Carnesale. John W. Thomas, lecturer on public policy, and Nancy S. Pyle, director of the Mason program...
...campaign both administratively and financially. "He gives willingly to make the institution stronger....his involvement in the total picture of the University has been phenomenal," says a development officer. Today Cabot is on the Campaign's Executive Committee, in the company of others with similar records. These include Albert H. Gordon '23, namesake of the Indoor Track and Tennis Center, and John L. Loeb '24, who last year gave $8.5 million to endow 10 junior faculty chairs...
...even Elvis, whose long and mighty shadow so often shaded Jerry Lee, has ever been so honored. Presley records have become fairly random collections of ill-assorted tracks. Albert Goldman's 1981 biographical pillaging gut-shot the King on the first page and left him to bleed for 590 more. Jerry Lee, still touring, still recording, still hellacious, has lucked into a much better deal. Two years ago, Nick Tosches wrote a definitive rock biography, Hellfire, that plunged right to the glowing white heart of Lewis' Pentecostal furies and set down forever all of Jerry...