Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps Perkins' most radical departure from past practice at HIID. however, is his advocacy of women's studies. This winter, he helped Nancy Pyle. HIID's assistant director of student programs, to obtain a Ford Foundation grant to recruit women for the K-School. And he is now working with a joint Harvard-MIT study group on women in development which he calls the "first small step" towards a full-scale women's research and teaching program...
...Helms and his allies are always on the attack, even against their leader in the White House. Says Richard Viguerie, the direct-mail wizard who has raised large sums of money for Helms: "Never again will conservatives lay down for a Republican President, like they did for Nixon and Ford...
...McGovern, vice president of personnel at the Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco, who has begun a review of her firm's hiring of M.B.A.s. Concedes Arjay Miller, who left Ford to head Stanford's business school from 1969 to 1979: "I've never said this before, but I do think some firms are paying M.B.A.s too much money...
...exotica of high finance, the class on power and politics in organizations devoted a session to the case of Mary Cunningham, the celebrated alumna of Harvard and Bendix who is now a vice president at Seagram. Perhaps because of former Dean Arjay Miller's long experience at Ford, Stanford tries particularly hard to blend the academic and the commercial. After learning that its students' writing ability was, as Business School Dean Rene McPherson said, "shockingly bad," it began to evaluate students' papers for prose style and to have oral presentations taped and judged for coherence. Miller also...
...make his 3-hr. 40-min. western, so they'd better eat all of it. They didn't: the critics were outraged by the expenditure of all that time, talent, money and solemnity on a story that Zane Grey could have told in 30 pages and John Ford shown in 30 minutes. They should have realized that narrative coherence is to Cimino as a snake is to an elephant: he doesn't ignore it so much as trample over it. The Deer Hunter was a botch as a story, but it had redeeming social delirium. No such...