Word: kidder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From a ridge on Mount Holyoke--the mountain, not the college--Tracy Kidder looks down at Northampton, Mass., near where he lives. He has just written an impressionistic portrait of this old New England community, Home Town (Random House; 349 pages; $25.95). From his perch, he dreams up a lofty introduction that concludes, "...the cornfields are a dream of perfect order, and the town seems entirely coherent, self-contained, a place where a person might live a whole life and consider it complete, a tiny civilization all its own." Then, beguiled by a sentimental image, he adds, "The town below...
...Sells housewares operation to Black & Decker for $300 million. Buys RCA, including NBC, for $6.4 billion. Acquires an 80% interest in Kidder, Peabody for $600 million...
...Buys Tungsram, a lighting maker, from Hungarian government. Sells aerospace business (except jet engines). Sells Kidder, Peabody...
...Since the study controls for college performance," Kidder said, "there is some combination of cultural bias on the test and atmospheric bias...
...Kidder explained that stereotypes and other influences in the testing milieu may artificially depress the performance of minority students...