Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last March a high-level faculty committee, headed by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53 issued a report containing pointed criticisms of the University's faculty recruitment and positive suggestions for reforms. Although the Verba Committee report has not been so grievously neglected as the Whitla Report of 1980, it seems destined to produce regrettably little substantive change...
...delegation is composed of top level business and trade officials from Yerevan and other areas of the USSR, according to Brugmann. He said that while in Cambridge, members visited the Polaroid factory and attended seminars about the American economy...
...What was good was that we didn't play down to their level," Cutone added...
...part, the comebacks reflected a rare degree of cooperation between government leaders and securities markets around the world. Speaking to bankers last Monday, Greenspan declared that Federal Reserve officials "have kept in productive contact with our counterparts abroad" and that "coordination exists at a detailed level" between the Fed, the Treasury, the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates futures markets. Wall Streeters immediately dubbed the cooperating agencies the "Group of Four...
...Broadcast Group, was parking his car at Candlestick Park when the earthquake hit, and he subsequently spent hours searching for a working telephone or open airport. "It's remarkable that television got satellite feeds out at all, given that things weren't working even at a lower level of technology," he says. San Francisco's two dailies, also without power, had trouble making their deadlines with abbreviated editions, and newspapers across the country relied heavily on TV for their information...