Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practical EGD generator. In 1964, after failing to sell his idea, he rounded up a handful of fellow scientists, raised $200,000 and founded his own company-Gourdine Systems, Inc. He is already producing laboratory EGD generators for use in college and high school demonstrations, and has licensed Foster Wheeler Corp.-an industrial boiler manufacturer-to build EGD generators for industry...
Whatever the program, most journalists who go back to the campus are happy they did. "When a man finishes our medical course," says Columbia's Advanced Programs Director John Foster Jr., "he may not be able to remove an appendix, but he certainly can talk intelligently with the surgeon who did." Atlanta Constitution Editorial Writer Bruce Galphin, an ex-Nieman, offers more general praise of his fellowship: "Just by the example of the greatness at Harvard, you're ashamed not to do better things and try harder." Another Nieman Fellow, San Juan Star Columnist Alex Maldonado, says that...
...ever needed such an incentive, it no longer does. The fetishistic attachment to grades and degrees in this country long ago became a National Neurosis. The 2-S, and the newly-instituted exams, merely accelerate the tendency to equate education with a collection of glittering honors and badges. To foster this disease is the opposite of furthering the national interest, however the latter might be construed...
...that weren't enough, Mrs. Miller also tosses in a few choruses of whistling for a change of pace. The net result is the most titillating new voice since Florence Foster Jenkins...
...number of things we are doing to improve our recall system." Foster M. Palmer, associate librarian for reference and circulation in the Harvard College Library, said yesterday. The new fine will begin a week after a recall notice has been mailed...