Word: master
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the North House masters institutedbiannual student-faculty dinners, where studentsinvite the professor of their choice to dinner,they proved very popular and many other houseshave picked up the tradition. "It is a moreeffective way of getting students and facultymembers together," says North House Master J.Woodland Hastings, because the students andfaculty members already have something in common...
Lowell House seminar rooms are being used for53 hours of class time this semester, says WilliamH. Bossert '59, Lowell House Master. He adds thatthe number has been increasing for the past fiveyears...
Over the course of the trial, the judge's wife began and completed a master's degree in education. Two different jurors were married; one has already celebrated two anniversaries. All told, the court's transcribers pecked out more than 100,000 pages of testimony, the equivalent of a 33-ft. stack of typewriter bond paper...
...squabbled over the details but eventually gave the President virtually everything he wanted. In the end, the Economic Recovery Tax Act slashed personal-income tax rates 23% over three years. Reaganomics was supposed to produce a budget surplus of $500 million by 1984, but one of the Administration's master strategists, Budget Director David Stockman, knew better. "None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers," he confessed in a December 1981 magazine article that rocked the White House. "People are getting from A to B, and it's not clear how they are getting there...
...Yorker came up with another kind of answer, or perhaps just an epitaph. It was a bedraggled parrot that a policeman found in Manhattan in November of 1929. "More margin!" the bird squawked, in echo of some desperate stockbroker's greedy injunction to the bird's vanished master in that already vanished era. "More margin...