Word: horgan
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...Inflation Factor Storm-related economic problems are likely to be temporary, but they are still worrisome because the nation is already facing the possibility of reduced growth if the U.S. slumps into a recession. In China, "risks to growth also inevitably mean risks to [social] stability," says Patrick Horgan, China managing director for Washington, D.C.-based consultants APCO Worldwide. "On a big scale like this, it's no longer just about the weather but about the ability of the government to govern." And if you had to pick one area of the economy that scares the authorities in China...
Another principal investigator, Constance Horgan, who is director of the Center for Behavioral Health at Brandeis University’s Heller School, was not available for comment. Horgan has worked on numerous projects examining how health services are provided in the changing managed care environment, according to the Heller School website...
...Balanchine could be charming and funny, but some part of him remained unknowable, enigmatic. He seemed indifferent to money and accepted as little as $50 per performance in royalties when other troupes staged his works, recalls his onetime assistant Barbara Horgan, director of the George Balanchine Trust, which licenses performances by other companies. He formed intense bonds with his favored female dancers, making them his muses. He married four of them - Tamara Geva, Vera Zorina, Maria Tallchief and Tanaquil LeClercq - and had liaisons with others. Male or female, close or remote, most of his dancers revered their...
...there were seven couples who brought the suit that resulted in Massachusetts' court ruling on gay marriage last week. Two of the plaintiffs were Ed Balmelli and Michael Horgan. A couple of years ago, they did what generations of would-be newlyweds have done: they went before a clerk at Boston's city hall to apply for a marriage license. "The woman looked back and forth from each of us and said, 'Where's the bride?'" recalls Balmelli. "And we said, 'This marriage has two grooms.' She was just speechless...
There is a reason for that. The questions scientists are tackling now are a lot narrower than those that were being asked 100 years ago. As John Horgan pointed out in his controversial 1997 best seller The End of Science, we've already made most of the fundamental discoveries--that the blueprint for most living things is carried in a molecule called DNA; that the universe began with a Big Bang; that atoms are made of protons, electrons and neutrons; that evolution proceeds by natural selection. Though today's problems are less sweeping, they are no less important. The diseases...