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These changes had been defined earlier but never acted upon. In an Alumni Bulletin article that appeared in 1946, Provost Paul H. Buck criticized the prevalence in the college of “floppy ducklings,” students who were neither great scholars nor great athletes, musicians or artists. Buck, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, argued that the College still hosted the nation’s top scholars, but that it was not doing enough to attract students that excelled in other ways...
...What is not obvious to outsiders—and even to many very close to the situation as it existed in the pre-war years—is the paucity of applicants of the kind we most desire,” Buck wrote...
...March 11, 1950, Buck settled the question at a special press conference...
Even smaller firms--and their employees--are feeling pressure from abroad on prices and wages. Buck Knives, an American icon based in El Cajon, Calif., began outsourcing 10% of its production to Asia four years ago. It was not an easy decision. Many buyers of the firm's distinctive dark-handled knives, used for skinning deer and cleaning fish, were unhappy to learn that some Buck knives are forged overseas. But, explains chairman Chuck Buck, "we were getting pressure from dealers to lower our prices. Our filleting knives were selling for $26. Foreign knives were going for $14." So Buck...
...they have SARS patients because it will mean a dramatic drop in patients coming to their hospital," says Michael Tai, head of the department of social medicine at the Chungshan Medical University in Tai-chung, "and that means they will lose money." Still, "other hospitals won't dare to buck the system now," says epidemiologist Ho Mei-shang, who has been tasked by the President to bring hospitals into line. "They are getting the message...