Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Technological University is the newest and most exotic of the degree-granting corporate classrooms. Started five months ago in Fort Collins, Colo., N.T.U. organizes the videotaping of advanced engineering classes at 16 cooperating universities. The tapes are sent to business sites owned by seven sponsoring corporations. Working engineers "attend" the lectures on VCRs, and mail their course work to the school where the lecture originated. N.T.U. then assembles the credits toward a master's degree. This fall N.T.U. plans to start using satellite transmission. Teleconferencing may occasionally be added so that students can participate in classroom dialogue...
...each Friday evening to public television's Wall Street Week. In one regular segment of the show, Host Louis Rukeyser queries expert guests for stock tips. As it turns out, those analysts may have an unwitting knack for touting losers. According to a study released by Market Logic, a Fort Lauderdale newsletter, the 261 stocks picked by guests between late April 1983 and July 1984 fell by 8.4%, compared with a 5.7% drop for the market as a whole...
...particular Electra, however, managed to revive memories of the aircraft's ominous beginnings. Put into service in 1959, this craft was acquired in 1983 by Galaxy Airlines, a Fort Lauderdale charter service. When John Glenn used it for one trip during his campaign for the Democratic nomination last year, the pilot aborted a landing at Sioux City, Iowa, because of poor visibility and narrowly missed a control tower. A month later, another Democratic candidate, Jesse Jackson, chartered the same Galaxy Electra. On a trip with Jackson from Washington to Dallas last May, the Electra repeatedly shook, dropped and pitched...
Remsen N. Wolff '62-'64, a freelance photographer, was arrested in Fort Worth last Thursday after one of the rape victims identified his photograph as that of her attacker...
When five other rape victims failed to identify Wolff in lineups on Friday. Fort Worth authorities concluded they did not have sufficient evidence to bring formal charges on any of the murders or rapes...