Word: mastering
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...school, housed in its own building on the Charles River since 1978, now grants three degrees: a mid-career Master of Public Administration (MPA), a Master of Public Policy, a two-year MPA, and a Ph.D. Students study under a core curriculum that emphasizes methodology, quantitative reasoning, public management, and political organizational analysis...
...strict interpretation were a valid theory of Constitutional law, then "a court of historians to compile a master list of life in 1891" would be all that was needed to form the third branch of government, he said...
Management at Loews has always been a family affair. Larry is the master strategist and financier, usually tucked away in his plainly furnished corner office at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, his head permanently cocked toward his Quotron terminal. Bob, 60, an equal partner, a gregarious man with an exceptional command of details, has been the hands-on operator. The unusual alliance has not been broken in 40 years. "We have never had an argument," Larry Tisch claims. "There's no reason to show temper. I don't get mad." When Bob became Postmaster General last month, the partnership...
...Washington Journalist Elizabeth Drew, a first cousin: "They have been unshakably close since their boyhood." The boys grew up in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Their father owned a small boys' clothing company as well as two summer camps in New Jersey. After graduating from N.Y.U. at 18, Larry earned a master's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1946, after his brief stay at Harvard Law School, Larry and Bob persuaded their father to help them buy a Lakewood, N.J., resort hotel called Laurel-in- the-Pines, which proved to be a potent moneymaker...
Tisch had no real master plan in building his empire, no carefully crafted long-term strategy to consult. He just looked for good deals, an elusive goal for many corporate chiefs. In the late 1960s, Tisch started playing the takeover game. His first catch was Lorillard, maker of Kent and True cigarettes. In 1968 Loews acquired the company in a friendly deal, but soon after the merger was completed, Tisch, taking an active hand, forced out the company's chief executive. No sense in sitting back and watching an acquisition turn sour, he believed. Lorillard profits subsequently showed stronger growth...