Word: hallett
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IRON LADY. Being Ambassador to the Bahamas is not usually a training ground for the task of U.S. Customs Commissioner, yet Carol Boyd Hallett will succeed the high-profile William von Raab in that job. As Ambassador, Hallett persuaded Prime Minister Lynden Pindling to put Bahamian police on U.S. Customs "hot pursuit" overflights and later lifted the U.S. visas of Pindling cronies accused of drug corruption...
...Considering the fact that he's such a superb researcher in math," says Deborah Hughes Hallett, senior preceptor in mathematics, "Andy's done a considerable amount with teaching, which he certainly hasn't had to do. He's done lots as far as undergraduate education and has been extremely important in a number of ways as far as getting things started...
...responsible for determining what kinds of math and reasoning would need to be included on the QRR test," says Hughes Hallett. "He has been very important to people in math courses, but he's also been concerned with teaching math to people who are not concentrators as well...
...teleteaching system was tested last year in a Extension School mathematics course. "I was actually very impressed with how much [students in the test course] learned and how easy it was to teach this way," said Deborah Hughes Hallett, one of the instructors...
...companies aim to make their toys into celebrities so that children will accept no substitutes. The strategy is working. Youngsters now pick out their playthings with the fussiness of a young professional shopping for his or her first Saab. "They are smart kids growing up very fast," says Polly Hallett, marketing director for Fisher- Price toys...