Word: bended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...widespread respect in international economic circles, though he has no central bank experience. Moreover, his economic views are cut from essentially the same conservative, anti-inflationary fabric as Volcker's. As a Republican who has already served one Republican President, however, Greenspan is bound to face increasing pressure to bend his actions to political ends as the 1988 presidential election draws nearer. Indeed, some Administration critics argued last week that Greenspan's surprise appointment already amounted to just such political meddling. Said Pierre Rinfret, a former Nixon Administration economic adviser and now a Wall Street consultant: "It's a real...
When the freshmen, led by stroke Duncan Wilson, came into view around the left-hand bend of the Thames, a dot on the horizon in the far distance, it was almost too much trouble to watch...
...Notre Dame, leave other college presidents somewhat in awe. Says Jesuit Father Timothy Healy, president of Georgetown University: "If you ask American college presidents who is the most successful president they know, they'll say, 'Ted Hesburgh.' " Harvard's reticent Derek Bok will venture from Cambridge, Mass., to South Bend, Ind., this Sunday to deliver a rare extramural commencement speech in tribute to his old friend...
...Hesburgh vision and trumpet have reached far beyond South Bend. He has always insisted that "my purpose is to produce educated Christians. I don't want to be Harvard, I want to be the greatest Catholic university in the world." Nevertheless, last fall he acted as point man for 111 Catholic college presidents who rebutted a Vatican schema for greater control over the appointment of theology professors at Catholic schools. Their objection was that such control could infringe academic freedom. "The church proclaims the word of God loud and clear without any doubts," says Hesburgh, whereas the "university...
...applications, though, depend on bringing the technology out of the lab, and despite the bubbly confidence of many scientists, obstacles remain. One is the need to form the new materials into usable shapes. While metals bend, anyone who has dropped a dinner plate knows that ceramics do not. And a flexible material has a big advantage over a brittle one if it is to be coiled around an electromagnet. Says Osamu Horigami, chief researcher at Toshiba's Energy Science and Technology Laboratory: "To get a magnet or coil or even a wire we could use with complete confidence could take...