Word: chain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee does not have a monopolyon influencing the ultimate decision-maker,Rudenstine. Specifically, Mansfield said, "thosein the chain of command" are in a position toaffect the president's tenure verdicts...
...Harvard students, it is still possible to do something you like--you don't need to feel compelled to chain yourself to an investment banker's desk after graduation...
...much for truth. Much of the book's melodrama comes from Roberts' account of abuse by a father he describes as angry, violent and a killer. The late Marvin Roberts, a horse trainer in Salinas, Calif., beat Monty with a chain, so goes the account, when the seven-year-old boy began to question rough, traditional training methods. These beatings, writes Monty, went on weekly for several years. Worse: during World War II, when Marvin worked as a policeman, Monty saw his father disarm a knife-wielding black soldier who was trying to hold up the Golden Dragon...
...Harold Ickes: A chain of plastic prayer beads...
Supposedly, there are four things you can do with a Harvard degree--law school, medical school, investment banking and management consulting. Stracher, however, embodies the hope of Harvard's writers, actors, dancers and artists: no, you don't have to chain yourself to a desk for 30 years and, yes, you can go where your heart beckons...