Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is why I write this column. On a personal level, I need to take credit where it is earned and confess that which deserves confession, then put it all to bed as one snugly-tucked memory. I will leave this office content--not completely satisfied by any means, and strenuously wishing there were time still to implement the lessons I have learned, but satisfied nonetheless. It has been a tremendous privilege to have served you all, and I hope that on occasion, at least, I have led you as well. Beth A. Stewart '00 is a government concentrator...
With an M.A. and Ph.D. in educational psychology--and a winning reputation--Osborne had both the vision and the credentials to do something about it. "It dawned on me that we had a pretty good level of character among the players, and because they are heroic figures to young people, they could make a difference in their lives," he says. Along with his wife Nancy, the coach initiated a mentoring program called TeamMates, pairing 25 of his Cornhuskers with 25 children. The goal was to have these college athletes-cum-mentors stay with their charges from the kids' first year...
...private banker or "relationship manager" has become a guide through the complex world of financial services. The entry level for most of these private banks is $1 million, though in the fragmented industry you will find boutiques like Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and J.P. Morgan that require $5 million, and aggressive players like Merrill Lynch that accept as little...
...that peaked in 1994 with the $755 million that The Lion King grossed worldwide. But that film opened just weeks before Katzenberg was ejected in a play for advancement that went sour. Disney's subsequent cartoons--Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules--failed to replicate that level of success. Was it animation burnout, or was Katzenberg the one with the Midas touch...
...condition of art by means of exquisite decoration, was underwritten by the Japanese convention of giving gifts--as tribute, tokens of loyalty, signs of gratitude. The gift was a much more important social symbol in Japan than in the West, and the circulation of luxury objects fostered a level of design and craftsmanship that was, by modern Western standards, almost unimaginably high...