Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Jimmy Carter named Brewster ambassador to Great Britain, a post he held until 1981. Since 1985, he had been a master of University College in Oxford, England, where he died...
...plan represents only a tentative proposal, said COHL member and Quincy House Co-Master Rosa D. Shinagel. However, it is a serious attempt to address what many masters have felt is a growing problem of polarization in some houses. That polarization is made worse by students' belief in house stereotypes, masters said...
...recommendations of the committee, chairedby Leverett House Master John H. Dowling '57,represented a response to the widely varyingnumbers of athletes in different houses. Athleteslast year made up 54 percent of Kirkland House and32 percent of Eliot, but only 5 percent of Adamsand Dunster Houses...
...corporate America has never seen anything quite like the battle for RJR Nabisco. The combatants are brandishing tens of billions of dollars and mobilizing squadrons of bankers and lawyers on a scale previously unimagined. On one side is the firm of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, until now the undisputed master of the leveraged buyout. On the other is an alliance between a group of RJR Nabisco executives and Shearson Lehman Hutton, an old-line investment firm determined to break KKR's dominance of the hottest, most lucrative business on Wall Street. If either side pulls off the deal, the course...
...control cabinets. The start-up countdown begins in earnest. Engineers watch the gauges as the needles begin to move. An exacting series of 14 conditions must be met before the computer will allow operation to start. When the computer is satisfied, the green prestart light goes on, the master control switch is turned to start, and the gates that let water into the turbine are opened. The generator begins to turn, slowly at first, then quickly builds to its 300 r.p.m. speed. A high-pitched hum fills the building, but the generator is so steady a nickel can be balanced...