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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style is uneven. When the dialogue is explained, it is sometimes done well and unobtrusively, but at other times the language sounds like a G.E. instruction manual ("Cora placed the items on the table...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: A Half Dozen of the Other | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

Perkins questioned the practice of consulting "purely for the money," but said he knew of no case of that type in the Economics Department. He added, "If I knew every piece of consulting done I might be able to find a few examples. But a great majority have a clear professional pay-off or provide a service...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Professional Moonlighting | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

...professors consult "for the money. All will say that it gives a deeper experience in the world of practical affairs. All will disguise the reality--which is that it's a good way of supplementing academic pay." But not wanting to seem "self-righteous," he added "I've never done it myself, but I've never known for sure whether that was because of moral resistance or because I wasn't under financial pressure...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Professional Moonlighting | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

...they worked for. John R. Meyer, 1907 Professor in Transportation, Logistics and Distribution, who teaches Economics 1540, "The Business-Government Relationship in U.S. Society," said that "some of it is highly confidential advice to senior management.... Really, I don't think it's other people's business. It's done on my own time and mainly in the summer." He compared his relationship with a corporate client to a doctor's with his patient, and said, "Sometimes it involves high level corporate strategy and public policy...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Professional Moonlighting | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

...Harding came to a startling conclusion: Milligan had fractured his psyche into ten "people," eight male and two female, ranging from Christene, a vulnerable three-year-old, to Arthur, 22, a rational, controlled planner who speaks with a British accent and tries to repair the damage done by the other personalities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Man with Ten Personalities | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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