Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That raised monthly costs for householders with variable-rate mortgages and made borrowing more difficult for new home buyers. In kitchens and corporate boardrooms across the country, worried consumers and executives were examining their budgets and rethinking their spending plans. Notes Alan Meltzer, a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University: "People don't know what kind of environment they will be in, so they are postponing decisions...
...author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (copies sold: 1.4 million), has limbered the lobes of executives at companies as varied as IBM and Patagonia by helping them learn the basic perceptual skills required for drawing. Says Robert Kelley, adjunct professor of business administration at Carnegie-Mellon University: "The vital question American businesses face is to determine if they are going to require creativity on a regular basis. If so, they need talent in place, and no one knows how to do this very well...
...fans attending Princeton games, he said he'd love to see more fannies in the seats. "But there are a lot of All-Americas over in the library, and there is nobody there cheering them on." Says William Bowen, the former president of Princeton, now head of the Mellon Foundation: "He is a healthy antidote for everything that is wrong in college athletics. He understands the place of the athlete in the university...
...most comprehensive such investigation ever undertaken. The objective: to see how accurately researchers can predict who will get sick based on a psychological profile and measurements of immune function before infection. "Assuming that stress puts people at higher risk," asks Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, "will people who have social support in confronting stresses be protected ((from contracting disease))?" The results are being analyzed...
...Harvard University will continue to assert that there are not enough qualified Asian-American humanities scholars suitable for tenure. And foundations such as the Mellon and Ford will continue to deny minority fellowships to Asian-Americans because "Orientals are overrepresented in the sciences." It leaves Asian-Americans paralyzed by a Catch...