Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the war Brezhnev rose steadily in the Ukrainian party organization as a protege of Khrushchev's; he followed his mentor to Moscow in the early '50s, and was subsequently dispatched to a key job in Kazakhstan. Brezhnev helped administer Khrushchev's costly "virgin lands" program, aimed at increasing the harvests...
...NOTEBOOK: The future looks bright for not only the Harvard field hockey family but the Mabrey family as well. Saturday the Crimson mentor announced that she is pregnant. Look for another Mabrey on the Harvard field hockey roster circa...
There are serious doubts in the auto industry, though, that the DMC-12 will turn into a collector's item, like the Cord or the Edsel. One such skeptic is Semon ("Bunkie") Knudsen, retired president of Ford Motor Co. and mentor of De Lorean when both were at GM. Says he: "Usually you have to have cars built in really small quantities to be collector's items, perhaps 700 or less...
Johnson's mentor and benefactor, flourished throughout L.B.J.'s career and even after Alice finally married Marsh, 24 years her senior. Until Viet Nam. She hated Johnson's obsession with the war and ended their relationship. Though L.B.J. often boasted of his later infidelities, he never discussed his affair with Glass, who died in 1976, perhaps out of deference to the lady's reputation, perhaps to that of Marsh's political and financial might. It was a relationship, says Caro, that "juts out of the landscape of Johnson's life...
...Crimson mentor believes his charges have a chance to bring home to crown. "They're going to win it," Haggerty said. "That's their attitude...