Word: gills
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...search committee was also impressed with Fisher's familiarity with the lives of both undergraduates and graduates at Harvard, Gill said...
Student members of the committee said they were particularly impressed with Fisher's ideas for involving more faculty members in house activities, said Margot N. Gill, dean for student affairs of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and chair of the search committee...
...troubled Randolph County High School was arson. The FBI and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms say "an accelerant" caused the blaze. Meanwhile, the man at the center of the racial fire storm, ex-principal Hulond Humphries, got slapped with a lawsuit from a local TV cameraman. Bill Gill's tape shows Humphries and another man slamming Gill to the ground. The reporter, who is black, says the incident was racially motivated and points to racist statements made during the alleged assault...
...Even Tom Gill of Columbus has had moments of doubt. During the first three months of his new, nice-guy dispensation this spring, his Oldsmobile dealership's sales dropped nearly 50%, largely, he believes, because his competitors were shiftily using the old, illusory tactics -- lowballing him -- to undercut his prices. "It got real frustrating," he says. "For me to tell a customer I'm not coming down in price was like steering a ship in reverse. It was hard." Then, unexpectedly, Gill had the best May and June in the five-year history of his operation. Customers came back...
...this upward blip an accident or a reward for good behavior? Gill does not know for sure, and neither, at this point, do the many observers who are pondering what has become the auto industry's most intriguing question: Will the era of skinned customers give way to the age of the golden fleeced...