Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highest levels of its 10 schools, Harvard has had only one minority dean without "assistant," or "associate" in his title, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Venkatesh Narayanamurti. But because his department is within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, even Narayanamurti isn't technically on the level of the dean of the Divinity School or Graduate School of Education...
...fact is, United States v. Microsoft does have an ideology behind it. At some level, it's a return to the good old days of trust busting, something scarcely seen in the U.S. since the government's case against IBM sputtered out in the early 1980s. Emboldened by Judge Jackson's ruling, the Antitrust Division could soon be prowling for more high-profile, high-tech targets...
...Patients, already struggling with HMO gatekeepers, are facing a new level of interference from religious gatekeepers," says Lois Uttley, director of MergerWatch, an organization that campaigns against mergers between Catholic and non-Catholic hospitals. Campos intends to tear down that gate. She doesn't want to have her baby at St. Louise and her tubal ligation at another hospital two months later. "I'm going to put up a fight," she says firmly. "I have the right to make a choice." Perhaps St. Louise should consider what wise men inevitably learn: it doesn't pay to argue with a pregnant...
...peaceful uses of nuclear technology. This multibillion-dollar industry has become important to the U.S. in many areas, including energy, medical uses and industrial applications. We need to have the maximum number of U.S. government-supported controls on weapons development. This will increase our security and our level of comfort with the continuing trade in and information exchange on the peaceful uses of nuclear science. Both of these are important to the entire world as we enter the new millennium. EDWARD (TED) L. QUINN Laguna Niguel, Calif...
TIME suffers from the same vision problem as the toy industry when it inadvertently elevates Eric Johnson, "professor of management at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business," to the level of toy expert [BUSINESS, Oct. 25]. As an independent toy designer, I believe emotion is the true heart of all toys. To become healthy again, the industry must return control to the real experts, the entrepreneurs, inventors and designers who are intrinsically connected to this emotional dimension. As long as the M.B.A.s hold the toy-industry reins and the stock market is God, Toys "R" Us will remain a boring...