Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Late in the third quarter, with the score tied, 3-3, the defensive front came through with the turning point of the game...
Editor's Note: Late Saturday night--in the midst of Head of the Charles weekend--senior Crimson executives heard that somewhere on the Harvard campus, someone was throwing a good party...
...America's jazz capital, sitting in on gigs with his clarinet from the time he was a teenager. Allen's musical hero, clarinetist George Lewis, was one of Sancton's own mentors, and in 1969 Sancton played at Lewis' funeral. While an undergraduate at Harvard University in the late 1960s, Sancton formed the Black Eagle Jazz Band. When he went on to Oxford for graduate work, he ^ toured briefly with several European jazz groups before putting the horn aside to complete his doctorate in European history. He did not play in public again until two years ago. Earlier this month...
...chief executive officer of Browning-Ferris Industries, a major waste-management firm, believes a historical watershed is at hand. If the industrialized and developing countries did everything they should, he says, the resulting change would represent "a modification of society comparable in scale to the agricultural revolution of the late Neolithic age and to the Industrial Revolution of the + past two centuries...
...fact, Haavelmo's prize reflected a situation that is unique to the award for economics. The Nobel Prizes were first given in 1901, but the economics citation was not added until 1969, when it was established by Sweden's central bank. That late start has prompted the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to choose many older economists whose work could not be recognized when it was first published. "They're clearing up the backlog," says Harvard economist Zvi Griliches, who hailed this year's choice. "They haven't got to the point of recognizing something interesting that happened...