Word: latches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What I shoot is based on so many variables: state of mind, weather. You latch on to things that give you comfort," says senior Joel Radtke, the captain of the Harvard men's golf team...
...There are whole cadres of conspiracy theorists who latch onto this notion of Malone and Turner overthrowing Levin," says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at Emory Business School. "I don't see it. With support from Turner and Malone, Levin has a lot of new strength." Still, Malone and Levin must co-exist--and that may not be easy. Where Levin's style is subtle and elliptical, Malone's is famously brusque and blunt. Where Levin is slight and professorial, Malone has the square-jawed mien of the off-duty general--and the tactics to match. An executive who knows...
Symonds said one of his goals for the program was to expose students to a wide variety of the arts in order to avoid what he calls the "tracking phenomenon," in which students latch on to specific identities early on in their college careers...
...desperate are programmers for a stable computer standard that they will latch on to the first one that works-whether or not it is the best. A case in point, says Arthur, is ms-dos. "Microsoft dos for any serious user is a crummy operating system," he says. "But Microsoft got there first and played its market advantages extremely intelligently...
Jewett's impending retirement suggests another wrinkle for conspiracy theorists to latch onto. Incoming Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 favors randomization of the housing lottery process. In fact, he endorsed it as co-chair of a faculty committee that reopened the debate on the housing lottery last fall. Isn't it just possible that the outgoing Jewett made the decision so that the incoming Lewis would not have to anger his students in the first year of his term? It's a classic maxim of The Prince for the ruler to separate himself from the executors of unpopular policies...