Word: maier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference--sponsored by the K-School's Center for Business and Government--attracted more than 25 business and public sector leaders, along with Leonard and three other faculty members. Officials attending the conference included the mayor of Newark. N. J. Kenneth Gibson, the mayor of Milwaukee, Wise., Henry Maier, and Congressman William F. Clinger (R-Penn...
James S. Duesenberry, Maier Professor of Money and Banking and a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under former President Lyndon B. Johnson, said that the spending freeze was "simply a way for reacting to demands about doing something with the budget," he added that it would be unlikely that Congress would agree to what could amount to $30 to $40 billion in non-defense expenditures...
...most serious runner on the Faculty is probably History Professor Charles S. Maier. A couple of months ago he finished the 26.2 miles of the New York Marathon in three hours 46 minutes (winning time: two hours nine minutes). While he was training for the big event he ran 50 miles every week around his Fresh Pond home or near the Charles. "Now that the light has changed," he says, "it's harder to run," so he has cut back to 30 miles weekly...
...Maier doesn't like to talk about his favorite sport. "I'm sort of bashful about running, because there are so many fantastic athletes on the Faculty. The one's of us who run, we're the ones who aren't very good at competitive sports...
Associate Professor of Economics and Population Rober C. Repetto would probably agree with Maier. "Running is better than nothing, but basically it's boring." He prefers touch football, tennis, squash, skiing--and especially basketball. "I love it. I was captain of the basketball team as an undergraduate, and now they can't get me out of the IAB. It's competitive, it's a team sport, it's everything great. I had to give it up for a couple of years when I was in Bangladesh, though. They're all so teeny, it was unfair...