Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small colleges. Helen Karnovsky, special assistant to Harris and HEW's liaisons with women's colleges, says. "If they have a personal relationship, that helps," Karnovsky adds. While federal officials do not normally think of women's colleges as lobbyists, "President Horner is listened to as an individual," Joy Simonson, director of the National Advisory Council on women's Education, says. In essence, stature opens the path...
...carries in his political make-up bag. He inherited the power to attract followers from his father, who served six terms in Congress and his mother, who took the seat for awhile after the elder Baker's death. And when Howard Baker decided to get married he selected Joy Dirksen, a blonde midwesterner and daughter of the Senate Republican leader, Everett Dirksen of Illinois. Besides his political connections, Baker is a Republican, and eastern Tennessee is almost all Republican. And Presbyterian--just like Baker...
...When the company was founded, I felt it was important to keep the number of people small--it's cheap, effective, and lets you focus on the major issues," Cabot says. "The great joy and benefit Harvard has is one account for one group of people around a table...
...used to playing catch-up ball, the Crimson jumped for joy when tri-captain Julie Brynteson tied the game on a heads-up play--lofting a direct kick quickly and precisely into the net while UMass goalie Kelly Turner stood gaping...
...human craving for numbers tells a good deal about man kind. It is both sign and cause of man's long trek from the days of one, two, three, many. It can be taken as a symptom of exuberant joy in the quantity and multiplicity of things. Still, the dizzy acceptance of those truly incomprehensible figures might also be construed as a vicarious variation of the old Faustian game: the yearning to know the unknowable...