Word: helming
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With a new president at the helm of the Black Students Association (BSA), members have been considering ways to unify Harvard's Black community and coordinate efforts of the many Black student groups on campus...
Baybak appeared in 1989 at the helm of Wall Street Ventures, a start-up that announced it owned 35 tons of rare Middle Eastern postage stamps -- worth $100 million -- and was buying the world's largest collection of southern Arabian stamps (worth $350 million). Steven C. Rockefeller Jr. of the oil family and former hockey star Denis Potvin joined the company in top posts, but both say they quit when they realized the stamps were virtually worthless. "The stamps were created by sand-dune nations to exploit collectors," says Michael Laurence, editor of Linn's Stamp News, America's largest...
...immediate prospects of the bill's passing are quite good. Several important foes of gun control, including Les AuCoin (R--Oregon), rallying to its support. Even the White House, with lifetime NRA member George Bush at the helm, is said to be rejoicing at the opportunity to support the bill, under the cover of Reagan and within the framework of Bush's own crime bill...
...address in June will be the culmination of a series of events this spring celebrating his two decades at Harvard's helm. Class marshalls said that the decision was partially meant to honor...
...winningest swim coach in Harvard history, who announced his resignation in a formal statement on December 3. In that statement, Bernal cited conflicts between his Harvard coaching responsibilities, and responsibilities to outside obligations as factors contributing to his decison to step down after 14 years at Harvard's helm...