Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge Police notified Harvard last week that shuttle buses to the Quad may no longer stop at the corner of Garden St. and Mass Ave because they block traffic while picking up passengers, said Frank Rose, superintendent of central services in the Facilities Maintenance Department and head of the shuttle bus system...
...Soviet media we are seeing a complex but expanding process of "de- tabooization." High officials are openly criticized, including government ministers and regional party first secretaries, some of whom are members of the Central Committee. This criticism is not always followed by dismissals, as would have happened in the past, which means that criticism now is a standard for behavior and not a tool of punishment. There have been cases when sycophantic bosses, to curry favor, punished underlings who objected to some aspect of the campaign for restructuring our economy -- and those bosses were in turn severely chastised for attempting...
...Invisible Man to Topper, unseen characters have terrorized towns and caused comic chaos. The tradition now moves into the business world with a much touted and timely new book: Memoirs of an Invisible Man, the first novel by Harry F. Saint, a New York City real estate investor. The central character of Memoirs, a securities analyst named Nick Halloway, becomes the ultimate inside trader when a botched demonstration of an exotic new technology makes him transparent. He slips into the offices of corporate raiders, overhears their takeover plans and makes a fortune by telephoning orders to his broker. Guiltily, Halloway...
Last month's decision by West Germany's central bank to trim the discount rate that it charges to banks from 3.5% to 3% was hailed as a much needed step to take pressure off the mark and boost domestic German consumption. Some of TIME's economists, though, argued that a further relaxation of West German monetary policy is still needed. "The Bundesbank's action was too late and not sufficient," complained Mast...
...rigorous analysis that would confirm it. This maneuver would effectively pre-empt any claim by the UA2 group, which was proceeding with a more careful proof before going public. Says Physicist Bernard Sadoulet, a member of the UA1 team: "It was clear that we were working on something so central to particle physics that if we got it, our leader would get the Nobel Prize...