Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time a man in a white lab coat might have delighted Salk's peers in medical research. Instead many of them resented him as a man who reaped the glory for work that had been pioneered by less celebrated scientists all around the world. By 1962 Dr. Albert Sabin's oral vaccine, derived from live viruses, had become the preferred method of inoculation in the U.S., and Sabin was bitter about Salk's earlier triumph. Just a few years before his own death in 1993 Sabin claimed that "Salk didn't discover anything." Salk himself was often uncomfortable with...
What Jobu sees is truly extraordinary: four of the Top 10 batting averages in the American League (Ramirez, Baerga, Lofton and Jim Thome), two certain Hall of Famers (Eddie Murray and Dave Winfield), and a guy so good they just named a candy bar after him--the Albert Belle Bar. If the pitching holds up, the Indians-who had a 6-1/2-game lead on the Kansas City Royals in the A.L. Central as of Friday-should finish first for the first time since...
Rudenstine was "suffering from severe fatigue and exhaustion of unknown origin," a University press release said. Albert Carnesale, provost and dean of the Kennedy School, was named acting president...
...network. But I think it is a very good first step, and it holds real promise to bring that insidious process to an end over time." Unconvinced, the plaintiffs have engaged a new lawyer -- former CIA analyst Michael P. Kelley -- and hope to persuade U.S. District Judge Albert Bryan this Friday to spike the agreement and send the agency back to the bargaining table...
...District Judge Albert Bryan approved a $990,000 settlement of a sex discrimination suit against the CIAover the objections of all but one of the ten women who had filed it. The women had asked that the judge kill the settlement of the class-action case, saying that it was not sufficient compensation for years of unfair treatment by male agency superiors. The women also charged that the agreement did not guarantee that future discrimination would not occur. Although Bryan said he was sympathetic to the women's concerns, he ruled that the settlement was in the best interests...