Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take a break from the rockpile and think as much as Derek Bok has about South Africa, the ANC would stop demanding that Harvard divest? These are Bok's critics: the imprisoned leader of South Africa's main resistance organization, two Nobel prize-holding Episcopal Bishops, and the murdered founder of Black Consciousness is South Africa. They certainly know more than he does, and in a university, when someone knows more than you do, you listen to them. Damon A. Silvers '86 Southern Africa Solidarity Committee
Much of the new respect for America emanates from the French President's office. After his return from the U.S. last spring, Francois Mitterrand praised the "genius" of Steven Jobs, 29-year-old founder of Apple Computer, and ordered his Cabinet to simplify the procedures for setting up new companies. Gaston Defferre, Minister for Planning, flew to Pittsburgh in November to pursue an agreement with Carnegie-Mellon University, which heads a 17-campus consortium that offers French firms direct access to U.S. research in automated manufacturing, robotics, artificial intelligence and computer- based education. "In Gaullist times French identity...
...Berlioz is the founder of modern orchestration." (Music...
...performances and the use of Sanders Theatre were donated, while the City of Cambridge paid for publicity materials, said committee co-founder Lori Ohliger. She added that she had been surprised by the uniform generosity, especially that of Harvard...
Sure, says Donald Burr, 43, founder and chairman of People Express, who has done both. Four years ago, when People Express became one of the first new carriers to go into business after the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, Burr's fledgling venture consisted of little more than one abandoned, rat- infested terminal in Newark and three used Boeing 737s purchased from Lufthansa. Today, People Express is the tenth busiest airline in the U.S., carrying nearly 1 million passengers a month. Some of its fares are one- fourth those of its competitors, but its profits for 1984 will total...