Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graduating seniors walk by the statue in the traditional "tipping of the hat" this June, they should think of President Eliot's words at the 1884 unveiling of the statue. "He will teach that one disinterested deed of hope and faith may crown a brief and broken life with deathless fame. He will teach that the good which men do lives after them, fruitful and multiplied beyond all power of measurement or computation...
Competition for the positions begins with a lengthy application. Of the 32 applicants from the K-School, selected semi-finalists went through a day-long interview process. Interviewers asked them to simulate a problem solving group dynamics situation, write a memo and prepare an oral brief under time restrictions...
...Mikhail Gorbachev, went on to laud Chernenko as "a tested leader of the Leninist type" and a man of "outstanding political and organizational abilities and immense life experience." The delegates hardly needed the glowing accolades to be persuaded of Chernenko's virtues. No sooner had Gorbachev finished his brief nominating speech than all hands in the vaulted chamber shot up in unanimous approval of his proposal that Chernenko be elected President...
Gorbachev, trained in both agriculture and law, was not elected a voting member of the Politburo until 1980. During Andropov's brief time in power, Gorbachev was put in charge of a high-level committee, studying ways to improve the economy. Unusually well traveled for a Soviet leader, he has been to Canada, France and West Germany. His foreign hosts have found him to be open and in formed. Gorbachev's name was mentioned in the succession to Andropov, but the Politburo's veterans presumably thought the moment was not yet ripe for the shift to someone...
...delegates he brings to San Francisco turns out to be in deciding the nomination. Going into this week's Pennsylvania primary, that bloc stood at 147 and it is sure to grow. Jackson is not campaigning in every state; indeed, he was talking last week of taking a brief vacation in the Caribbean after the Pennsylvania primary, a luxury neither Mondale nor Hart would dare contemplate. Nonetheless, by convention tune Jackson has high hopes of adding many more delegates from such states as Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio and California, each of which has a potential black vote estimated...