Word: hansons
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Arthur H. Hanson...
Unlike past laureates, like George Stigler, the 1982 winner who has been critical of government regulation, Debreu is purely a theorist. "We have never before awarded the prize for contributions of such pure basic research," said Assar Lindbeck, chairman of the five-member Nobel committee. Notes Bent Hanson, chairman of the Berkeley economics department: "Gerard Debreu is an economist's economist. His work is very abstract, very fundamental. But everyone in the profession quotes him and must demonstrate that they know his work...
Directed by Carroll Bollard Screenplay by Curtis Hanson, Sam Hamm and Richard Kletter...
...that wasn't even his debut on the international rowing scene. Hanson first rowed at the age of 10, but didn't become serious about the sport until 1979, when he started training on a river near his home in Mississauga. Ontario. A year later, he finished ninth in sculling at the Youth World Championships in Belgium...
Under the coaching of Ted Washburn, never known for going lightly on his rowers, the top boat last year transformed itself from "a disaster" [as Hanson puts it] early in the year to a Henley-caliber crew by the summer. Hanson hopes he can improve his sculling in the same way before the Canadian Olympic trials in May. "I want to see how good I could get in a single," he says, "and the Olympics came along at the right time for me to give it a try... I love this sport, and I love to see myself make progress...