Word: fores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...president of New York's Barnard College, a mathematician with a Ph.D. in educational psychology and an amateur ornithologist, who admits: "I am not a person who is terribly knowledgeable about business and Exxon." The world's largest oil company has never had a female director be fore, and Peterson suspects that she was chosen largely because "they felt it is important to have a women on the board." She is already the only woman on the boards of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and the Dry Dock Savings Bank...
...experienced lawyer as well as a journalist. He is typical of a growing band of attorney-reporters based in Washington. Until recently they were for the most part restricted to the Supreme Court and Justice Department beats. During the past year, Watergate has brought them to the fore, giving them both visibility and status...
...Houston led Haider to hand-pick Jamieson to succeed him as Jersey president when Haider became chairman in 1965. Jamieson says that he was surprised. "I had never worked for the parent company," he recalls. "I came in over the heads of an awful lot of people." Just be fore his elevation, Jamieson was the most junior of nine Jersey vice presidents. "I guess you could say it's a tribute to the people who work with this company that they were willing to pick a foreigner to head...
...there is a hollow ring to Harvard's argument. Why has Harvard suddenly leaped into the fore in defending minority students? Harvard's position has not always been so emphatic. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, for example, admitted a grand total of eight black students to this year's class. At the same time, Harvard continually argues that it cannot hire more qualified black faculty members until there are more blacks with Ph.D.s. And Harvard went through three affirmative action plans before having its marginal one approved...
Then American ingenuity came to the fore, the ingenuity of Henry Ford and John d. Rockefeller, and produced the Boilmakers of Purdue, the Battling Bishops of Ohio Wesleyan, the Waves of Pepperdine, the Green Wave of Tulane and the Red Wave of Troy State...