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...graduating from Harvard in 1976 with both an M.B.A. and a law degree, he decided to become a venture capitalist, but "there were no jobs in the field and no prospects of getting any." Then a professor introduced him to Stanley Golder, president of First Chicago's venture capital arm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's an Addictive Life | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...involvement with the CIA lessens our credibility as a scholarly and academic institution and makes us look like an arm of the U.S. government," Yalman said...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: The Center of Controversy | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

Stephenson spent 38 of the years between that party and the one which begins next September away from his Harvard, working in Wilmington, Del., where he headed Dupont's public relations arm. But during those years, Stephenson maintained his ties to Harvard...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: The Man Behind it All | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...began to employ her face and name to endorse products like coffee, phonograph records and wine. Such favored treatment did not always sit well with her colleagues and competitors, especially when she ordered them about. While covering World War II, she had the habit of showing up on the arm of the C.O. at the local theater of operations. One LIFE photographer, queried by the home office as to why Bourke-White was ahead of him on a story both had been assigned, replied that she "had one piece of equipment he didn't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fortunate Life Margaret Bourke-White | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...beginning with a brisk 1 1/2- to 5 1/2-mile hike at dawn and climaxing in the afternoon with the women's aerobic circuit, WAC in the appropriate acronym. As Offenbach's cancan blares, exercisers WAC out on each of 22 pieces of alternating equipment, moving every 45 seconds from arm weights to a stationary bike to leg presses to the rowing machine. To help the medicine go down, there is often a spoonful of sweetener (not sugar, naturally). After the hike, instructors produce jugs of water, paper cups, sliced oranges and, finally, wet washcloths to wipe sticky fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Shake a Leg, Mrs. Plushbottom | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

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