Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brightest spot in the economic picture is agriculture. Nutmeg prices remain high, and the banana and coconut industries are flourishing after many lean years. Farmers are harvesting new products, including flowers and exotic fruits, and finding eager markets in the U.S. and Europe. This growth is especially critical now that U.S. funds are tapering off. "We didn't expect the aid to go on forever," says Pauline Andrew, Agriculture and Tourism Minister. "Now we have to do it ourselves." After years of political upheaval, Grenadians seem anxious to get back to business...
...common bonds dating back to their student days at Cambridge in the 1950s. "These three women," Drabble notes, "it will readily and perhaps with some irritation be perceived, were amongst the creme de la creme of their generation." What have time and circumstances done to the best and the brightest...
...obvious problems with the national economy is the decline in our manufacturing industries; maybe the "best and brightest" at Harvard could provide solutions. Yet only four manufacturing firms made their way into Memorial Hall Friday. Why? Where were the industrial giants? Do they not want our liberal arts education? Are they not hiring? Or did we not invite them? What about smaller entrepreneurial-type firms? Must we all be channelled into certain companies...
...business major -- twice the proportion 20 years ago and only 2% lower than the men's figure. Some are also aware of studies suggesting that female egos take a subtle but destructive pounding in coed classrooms. A report released last fall by the Carnegie Foundation found that "even the brightest women students often remain silent" in mixed classes. "Not only do men talk more, but what they say often carries more weight." By contrast, at women's colleges, notes Wellesley President Nannerl Keohane, female students not only enjoy "equal * opportunity, but every opportunity." This pays off, she insists, when graduates...
...from the search for oil deposits to the design of nuclear weapons. The company has boasted two star computer engineers: Founder Seymour Cray, 62, and Steve Chen, 43, the Chinese-born immigrant who designed the Cray X-MP, the company's best-selling machine. Last weeksupercomputerdom's best and brightest duo decided to split up. In a move that shocked the investment community -- and sent Cray's stock tumbling 8 1/2 points in a single day -- the company announced the cancellation of its most advanced supercomputer project and the impending resignation of Project Manager Chen. According to the company, Chen...