Word: joans
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Chafin said the case he will remember most from his years at Harvard is the disappearance of 25-year-old Graduate School of Design student Joan I. Webster in 1981. "If I have any regret it's not seeing that case solved before I leave," Chafin said...
...that such savings are illusory and that the cost of a relaxed federal vigil in health and safety has not been accurately computed. By their reckoning, the American public has come out a loser. "Health and safety laws were passed by Congress to save lives and reduce injuries," declares Joan Claybrook, director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) under President Carter. "The Reagan Administration is doing just the opposite...
...DIED. Joan Robinson, 79, imperious, questing professor of economics at Cambridge University from 1965 to 1971; in Cambridge, England. In 1933, she published the iconoclastic Economics of Imperfect Competition and became the only woman in the small circle of scholars who met regularly with John Maynard Keynes to discuss the early drafts of his revolutionary tome, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). A prolific author (20 books, scores of articles), Robinson attempted to merge Marxian analysis with modern economics and harshly criticized "Bastard Keynesians" who, she believed, distorted the master's theories. Seeing little hope...
...setting they can master," says Gymboree's founder, Joan Barnes, a former dance teacher...
...enrolled in the University of Santa Clara. Although he never graduated, his grades were good enough to get him into Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. But after a year there, he was drafted. He served as a counterintelligence agent in Germany, where he met his wife, Joan Brauner, a Czech refugee working for the U.S. Army...