Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first type consists of effeminates like Charlie Chan or Martin Short's assistant in "Father of the Bride," and, even closer to home, the dorks in your math and science classes who wear corduroys above the ankle...
...addition to his teaching responsibilities at Wellesley, Winters said he has been an section leader for Math 1a and 1b at Harvard...
...people chosen to represent a cross section of adults. Over a period of four years, all subjects were interviewed and given between 35 and 40 tests, drawn from a bank of 185 prepared for the survey. The tasks simulated real-life situations, calling upon basic reading and math competence and the ability to interpret charts, graphs and timetables, and were assigned degrees of difficulty on a scale of 0 to 500. Thus totaling the sums on a bank-deposit slip rated a 191; calculating the costs, including handling and shipping, of a catalog order garnered...
Magaziner was not popular among health-care pros in Washington; he dismissed them -- often to their faces -- as too isolated to be part of the solution. Inside the campaign too there were private worries about Magaziner's math. After he had finished his work on the book, the grumbling turned public. As a result, Clinton launched one more conference call with his top health-care advisers on June 22. From the Governor's mansion in Little Rock, he reached Magaziner at a miniature-golf course near his home in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was relaxing with his children...
Florence J. Lin of the University of California at Berkeley (applied math); Catherine Magill-Solc of Harvard (molecular embryology); Patricia Cleary Miller of Rockhurst College (poetry); Debra C. Minkoff of Yale University (sociology); Virginia Newes of the Eastman School of Music (musicology); Hanna Papanek of Boston University (nonfiction); Ann Patchett, an independent writer (fiction and non-fiction) and Susan Power of the University of Iowa (fiction...