Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cared for him because he cared so deeply for all of us" Jon Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor of Economics Emeritus, said in his memorial remarks. "As a community, we will never quite repair or replace our loss...
...private geneaologist discovers that Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59, Economics Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, and Los Angeles Laker star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are, in fact, distant relatives. "No one ever believed me when I said I have a great fade away jumper, and now they will," says an elated Galbraith. "We are all Keynestans now," intones the 6-foot, 9-inch Fox, tossing the College's 1983 budget into the wastebasket...
...economy. In 1960 he moved to the Bank of Mexico, the country's central bank. Four years later, he spent a year at Harvard on a scholarship, earning a master's degree in public administration. (Among De la Madrid's professors: Liberal Economist John Kenneth Galbraith.) After he returned to Mexico, he became assistant director of public credit in the country's Finance Ministry, a job he held until 1970. Throughout most of that early period, De la Madrid also lectured on constitutional law at the University of Mexico...
...France not only objected to publication but had "substantive" problems with the accord, which Americans said had not been voiced before (the French insisted that they had). Feeling doublecrossed, Reagan went ahead with his speech anyway, incensing the French, who immediately disavowed any accord. That night U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith was called out of a U.S. Marine Corps ball in Paris and summoned, in tuxedo, to the Quai d'Orsay for a chewing-out. Two days later Mitterrand declared, with Gallic sarcasm, "France is not a party to what is not even an agreement...
Professor of Government Sidney Verta served " little Almond Joys, Kit Kats, and chocolate-covered wafers;" John Kenneth Galbraith Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, offered lollipops; Dean of Freshman Henry Moses provided Suo-Caps and Nestle. Crunch Bars: and Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould distributed Reese's peanut-butter caps...