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...tier institution, with no cohesiveness and notable for its can't-haves. We weren't allowed a law school or a program for doctorates." GM now has both. And Johnson vows there will be more where all this uplift has come from. "We will reach the level of Carnegie-Mellon in eight years," he says. "We will soon be a national university...
...Seger declared that the board was no longer Volcker's "one-man show." Financiers feared that the Reagan appointees might lower the Federal Reserve's guard against inflation and bend too much to the Administration's eagerness to expand the economy. Said Norman Robertson, chief economist at Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "Any pretense of the Fed being nonpolitical is now gone...
...fully ready to respond to emergencies are still in the minority. When a disaster unfolds, many corporate chiefs shake their heads and refuse to acknowledge the gravity of the problem. Says Gerald Meyers, former chairman of American Motors, who teaches a course in crisis management at Carnegie-Mellon University: "The most frequently made mistake is denial, and it's the biggest one you can make. Denial then gives way to anger. When the crisis doesn't go away quickly, the panic sets in." Agrees Donald Deaton, a senior vice president at Hill & Knowlton, a New York-based public relations firm...
Courted by colleges across the country for her math and science skills, Resnik chose to attend Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, from which she received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1970. She landed a job as a design engineer with RCA Corp. in Moorestown, N.J., received her doctorate from the University of Maryland and went to work for the Xerox Corp. in El Segundo, Calif. In March 1978, Resnik began training as an astronaut with NASA; she had been chosen from more than 8,000 applicants. Said Resnik at the time: "This is the first semester since...
...along with Stanford and Carnegie-Mellon, is at the forefront of artificial intelligence research, scientists there claim...