Word: marianne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stanford University, whose endowment ranked fifth in value in 1997, also felt the tremors of market fluctuations. The endowment, now estimated at $4.5 billion, lost about 10 percent of its value in August, according to Mariann Byerwalter, vice president of business affairs and chief financial officer for the university...
...LADIES! LADIES! YOU GOTTA BUY THIS. THIS IS THE GREATEST INVENTION," Mariann Raftery says loudly, waving a plastic bag of prepared salad greens in the middle of the local A&P in Scarsdale, an affluent suburb just 15 miles north of New York City. Seven well-dressed Japanese women, pens poised over notebooks, nod politely, not entirely sure what to make of this latest piece of American ingenuity. "It's so convenient," Raftery explains. "And now they have cole slaw too." But there are so many more mysteries to ponder at the A&P. Michiko Takai wants to know: "Which...
...women praise Raftery's knowledge of both American and Japanese cuisine. "She tries to take into account Japanese taste," Hitomi Yoshida says appreciatively. "Less sugar, more salt, and not so much turkey or lamb. Just pork and beef and seafood." "Mariann widened my shopping choices," says Takai, who, having dutifully taken one sample of each item Raftery has described, is visibly strained by the weight of her shopping basket...