Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dedicated teacher who has the rare ability to present complex ideas on a sophisticated but understandable level. As with his science, Wald's teaching is not separated from his politics. In Natural Sciences 5. "The Nature of Living Things" (yes, he enjoys teaching undergraduates), Wald once burned a dollar bill during lecture and asked the class to explain his action on the final exam. During another lecture, Wald talked about a student in the course who had spent a considerable part of his spring reading period in a New Hampshire jail for protesting against nuclear power plant construction in Seabrook...
When it came down to the wire this January, however, most official College groups were awed by the multimillion dollar price tag Dean Rosovsky hung on the uniform four-year housing plan, and few were drawn to the North House proposal to further integrate upperclass...
...gold speculators. Says he: "I had just come off the excitement of international banking and I was full of theories. Primarily, I was convinced the world was facing the first cataclysmic financial events since World War II, a massive increase in the price of gold and devaluation of the dollar." The book, The Billion Dollar Sure Thing, first appeared in Europe in 1973, became an international bestseller and prompted Erdman to write another, The Silver Bears. Both have been bought by Hollywood; the movie version of The Silver Bears, starring Michael Caine, will be released in November...
...parents in a modest Southside Chicago bungalow and is one of the world's smartest commodity traders. He has made close to $10 million. If you want to get rich, he advises, "you can't have the usual attitude toward money. If you think of every dollar you lose on the commodities market as a bucket of coal you'll have to shovel some day, then you're bound to be a bad trader." A onetime philosophy student at De Paul University, Dennis has observed: "People in my business have a tendency to selfdestruct. I think...
...Farrah Fawcett-Majors, fame and fortune at 30 means that she and Husband Lee Majors (Six Million Dollar Man) can hardly poke their heads out of their big Bel Air home without being mobbed. Says the Texas-born prima inter pares star of TV's Charlie's Angels: "The spontaneity is gone. We used to be able to fly to Las Vegas for a night. Now if we want to go away we have to rent a place on a desert island as Mr. and Mrs. Doe." Los Angeles Author Nicholas Meyer, also 30 and a new millionaire...