Word: freeman
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...Victor Freeman '84, for example, told the assembled council members and the approximately 40 other undergraduates who happened to pop into the open session--that "I spent a long time in student government and I've waited for this moment." Why? He didn't say. Asked to single out the one issue he would focus on as chairman. Freeman came up with "academics," which is kind of like a presidential candidate running on a platform of improving "the world situation...
...white knight to rescue the chairmanship. Raskin had ruled out running early in the week, but he left the door open a crack at Wednesday night's session. When nominated by a fellow delegate, he said, "I decline for now." The other scenario has the chairmanship going to a Freeman, a Sabutino or another unimaginative remnant of a decidedly anglorious past. In that case, the only thing they'll be passing In Science Center B on Sunday evenings will be fistfuls...
...their operations and try to become profitable again while they make partial payments on their debts. Perm Central Corp. has been able to emerge as a strong manufacturer and real estate operator after shedding the railroad operations that propelled it into bankruptcy court in 1970. Last week Joe B. Freeman Jr., chairman of AM International Inc., the Chicago-based business-equipment firm that filed for bankruptcy protection in April, announced that he now expects the company to turn a small profit during its 1983 fiscal year, after losing $245 million in fiscal 1981 and running up debts earlier this year...
...Winthrop residents nominated wre Vincent Breshanan '85, Peter Coharis '83. Victor Freeman '84, Paul Kang '84, Ehot Kieval '84, Kelly Klegar '85, Gene Miao '83, and Ron Samuel...
James R. Killian Jr., retired president of M.I.T.: The five indispensable books are Darwin's Origin of Species, Freeman Dyson's Disturbing the Universe, Ernst Mayr's Growth of Biological Thought, the works of Thomas Huxley, James Watson's Double Helix, René Vallery-Radot's Life of Pasteur, Eric Ashby's Technology and the Academics: An Essay on Universities and the Scientific Revolution and Sir WiLliam Cecil Dampier's History of Science. And the Bible. And Fowler's Modern English Usage. Also Spengler's Decline of the West, Henry Adams...