Word: fittings
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That kind of rebuff is familiar to journalists, and Sider was not fazed. "Ninety percent of reporting is like 90% of a detective's work," he says. "You have to hustle around gathering fragments of information from as many sources as possible, and then fit them together into a logical pattern." So Sider set off across Washington, hunting down and questioning more than 50 people with a stake in the new energy program: Congressmen, Capitol Hill aides, industry executives, environmentalists, public interest lawyers and others. Then, after huddling with fellow Correspondent John Berry, another energy expert, he wired...
...Champion fit the bill pretty well. He was a reporter on a financial beat for the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1950s, and spent the year 1956-57 at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow in journalism. He was press secretary to Edmund G. Brown Sr. in his campaign for Governor of California, and was the state's director of finances in 1961-62. He also had experience as the vice president of the University of Minnesota for finances, planning and operations, and served as the director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority in 1968-69. Champion came to Harvard...
...What I dislike about many of the meditation programs which are flying around the country now, is that they are standardized procedures which supposedly fit for anyone who tries them. I just can't believe that," Sampson says. Each individual's hypnotic needs differ so he must match the right hypnotic technique to the patient's "suggestibility" and general inclination to relax. He says he "treats every person differently in one way or another" because no two people are exactly alike. "In fact, after a typical session, many of my patients feel that they haven't been 'hypnotized' whatsoever...
Rumours proves that personal tragedy need not restrict artistic achievement--maybe it even encourages it. On "Gold Dust Woman," Stevie Nicks questions whether the group can "pick up the pieces and go home." Not only picking up the pieces, Fleetwood Mac has fit them together into a neat jigsaw puzzle. Nicks may believe that "rulers make bad lovers," but Rumours shows that bad lovers are capable sovereigns in the realm of music...
Coach Sanders now has the unenviable job of recruiting hoop talent for next year's freshman class. This is a difficult task, as Sanders explained, "because in order to find people that fit in you have to be able to see them play and this is hard to do when Harvard has no recruiting budget...