Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Star (Johannesburg), September 1970. Charles Engelhard parlayed an inheritance of $20 million into a $250 million fortune through his control of 15 per cent of the South African gold mining industry. South African gold miners earn on an average less than half the official South African poverty wage level and an average of three miners die per shift...
...declined comment on speculation that Vance tried to persuade the Egyptian leader to send a top-level official to Israel to revive direct negotiations between the two countries and perhaps attend the funeral on Tuesday of former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir...
...groups. Undergraudates may take courses in all programs in the graduate school except acting and directing. The programs open to them include the areas of technical design, set design, dramaturgy, dramatic criticism and playwriting. Brustein explains that undergraudates are excluded from the acting and directing classes because the intensive level of instruction and the time commitment involved makes it practical only for full-time graduate students. Graduate actors and directors spend 25 hours a week in class practicing. "Undergraduates would feel out of it. The intense professionalization we have here at the school makes it inappropriate for them...
Despite his recruiting success at Columbia, Penders also believes the admissions office was unsympathetic to the demands of a high-level program. During Penders's four years at Columbia, there were three different admissions directors. "One guy thought basketball was great and another didn't know where the gym was," he notes. "Harvard's not afraid to take a gamble on a kid," Penders adds. "At Columbia, I felt the admissions office was always worrying about what the rest of the league would think. At Harvard they don't give a darn...
...really concerned about what I consider a slackening of the performing mores on the part of middle-level employees on the one hand, and a slackening of concern about the responsibilities of management on the other," he said. His current job, he added, will let him "get in on the ground floor" to help create responsible public servants...