Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a wealth of knowledge, advice, and encouragement to offer students which they really want to share with us. We students should try to take advantage of this opportunity, despite our reservations, so that we can benefit. Not that all professors are eagerly awaiting students to come sit and chat with them--Professor Kistiakowsky certainly never felt that way; he was a serious and busy men. But he was willing to take the time to help students who had a sincere interest in the world around them, their place in it, their goals, and their capabilities. This is what...
...want to just chat," she said, adding that by using specially trained counselors the sessions could be "very much directed toward the particular problems" of each group in dealing with race relations...
Invitations to the White House are de rigueurfor Nobel prizewinners, but candor in the White House press room is not. Thus there were more than a few red faces at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue last week when conservative University of Chicago Economist George Stigler, 71, after a little chat with President Reagan in the Oval Office, was led into the briefing room for a few minutes with reporters. Someone half-heartedly asked the new Nobel laureate what he thought of Reaganomics. The professor, who is said to be a tough grader back home, lived up to his reputation, saying that...
...foreign and domestic confidence in his government's management of the country. One was to order the shake-up of 18 of 36 Cabinet portfolios. Among those shifted were a number of ministers identified with efforts to "Canadianize" ownership of industry. The Prime Minister had an unusual private chat with 21 top U.S. businessmen who were invited to Ottawa to discuss the local investment climate. The meeting was cordial, and, said First National Bank of Boston Chairman Richard Hill afterward, "we had a good explanation of why we are the way we are. We learned...
Among the many people who telephoned Stigler to offer congratulations was another enthusiastic critic of over-regulation by government. Said a grinning Stigler of his early-morning telephone chat with Ronald Reagan: "I told him he was a good President, and not to quit...