Word: freds
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...Harvard administrators, including PresidentDerek C. Bok, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett'57 and members of the Administrative Board werenotified of the letter's contents early this week,said Senior Advisor Keith W. Frome...
...said that he consulted with manyadministrators--including Bok, Vice President andGeneral Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 and Dean of theCollege L. Fred Jewett '57--before submitting therevised prologue to the Faculty Council...
...many respects, the erosion of the yen is driven by emotion rather than reality, since Japan's economy is still growing at a robust rate of about 4.5%. "It's really psychology, running in just the opposite direction of the underlying economic forces," says C. Fred Bergsten, director of Washington's Institute for International Economics. To prop up the yen, the Bank of Japan first tried intervening in foreign-exchange markets, spending $10 billion, or 17% of the country's currency reserves, to buy yen and dump dollars. Since that proved futile, the central bank last week boosted...
...after the first free election in East German history, a group of teachers in the southwestern city of Halle sat smoking cigarettes and talking about the balloting. Fred Hichert, an engineering instructor, said his vote for the victorious Christian Democratic Union was not only a bid for the quick melding of the two German economies but also a sign of his disgust with the long-ruling Communists. "They've had 40 years to test out their theories," he said. "Look at what they gave us." He gestured toward a crumbling row of apartments. A few blocks away, in Halle...
When strikes deteriorate into shoot-outs and slugfests, little hope for rational compromise remains. Even as he prepared to resume talks with Greyhound's unions over the weekend, company Chairman Fred Currey accused them of "violence, terrorism and intimidation" and said he expected little progress. Bitter face-offs between management and labor are increasingly frequent, with good faith in ever shorter supply. And for more and more workers, the time-honored concept of labor unity means sharing the pain without the gains...