Word: lew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kennedy set up meetings with hospital officials, members of Congress and Administration officials, including Jacob J. Lew '78, director of the federal Office of Management and Budget...
Based on the 1990 cult crime novel by Lew McCreary, The Minus Man tells the story of mild and childlike Vann Siegert (Bottle Rocket's Owen Wilson), an ostensibly kind, offenseless man. He's so nauseatingly likable and law-abiding (even when driving onto a deserted highway he makes a point of using a signal and looking both ways), you'd never suspect him of having any violent tendencies. He's perfect. Eerily perfect. All right, you guessed it--he's a serial killer; a bona fide psycho (how could someone who uses their blinker on a deserted highway...
Hewlett-Packard is getting out of the business it began with: making measuring devices. "Sentimentally, it was a very hard decision," says CEO Lew Platt--not least because "I spent more than half my career in measurements." But measuring devices had come to account for only 17% of HP's volume, and a collapse in Asian markets turned them into a drag on overall profits. Those now come mainly from computers and related equipment, but HP got into that field as a kind of sideline and, with its attention divided, has long been regarded as trailing more innovative rivals...
...part of the Conscience and Courage film series about resistance during the Holocaust, take in a screening of The White Rose. Director Michael Verhoeven will be there and you should be too.Edie and Lew Wasserman Cinematheque, Sachar International Center, Brandeis University, South St., Waltham. 781-736-8600. 7:30 p.m. FREE...
...example, Chen said she benefited from the support of Lew and Woo, Chinese Americans who were already established in the political field...