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DIED. Nathan Cummings, 88, contentious Canadian-born businessman who in 1939 took over an ailing Baltimore coffee and tea company and, through both internal growth and acquisitions, transformed it into Consolidated Foods, ranked 49th among FORTUNE 500 companies, whose brands include Sara Lee cakes and Fuller Brush; in Palm Beach...
Until recently, Whitla's office used results of the CUE survey to status the performance of graduate student teaching follows. Section leaders scoring below a 3.0 on the CUE ratings were routinely removed from teaching positions or "invited" to brush up their teaching skills at the Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, Whitla says...
...reason for ASEAN's action was soon evident. Within 24 hours, more than 30,000 Vietnamese troops supported by tanks and artillery had launched the final phase of a powerful pincer assault near the Thai border with Kampuchea. Their aim: to brush aside an estimated 10,000 lightly armed Kampuchean resistance fighters and gain control of a mountainous guerrilla fastness known as Phnom Malai. Two and a half months into this year's dry-season offensive, the Vietnamese had decided to move decisively against the most resilient resistance group of all, the remnants of the Khmer Rouge, who ran Kampuchea...
Escentially, he doesn't want to see behavior in his restau that he wouldn't want to see at his own dining room table. "Do you brush your teeth o. comb year hair over the soup bowl in year dining hall?" he asks. "Then why do it here?" He tells his employees never to serve a sandwich they wouldn't at themselves: he wants them to take everything as he does-personally. "If you don't want to obey my rules," heavy calmly "then I don't want you in here...
...zoomed from less than $50 billion at the start of the '70s to around $200 billion now. To hear some of their elected representatives tell it, the bankers practically begged farmers to take loan money. Says Senator Harkin: "We had bankers going up and down the road like Fuller Brush salesmen during the '70s. They couldn't get farmers to borrow enough." Interest rates skyrocketed, but so did the value of farmland, which was regarded as a scarce resource in a hungry world. The loans secured by farm real estate looked repayable...