Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They develop mentor relationships [with the students]," she said...
...also served as a Dunster House mentor lastfall to incoming sophomores, Braxton J.V. Robbason'97 said...
...weekends at his 27-year-old Royal 440 manual typewriter, turning out books at the rate of two pages a day. (He once broke off in mid-sentence after reaching that quota.) Otto's contributions to Time went beyond his muscular prose. A patient, sometimes acerbic and always inspiring mentor, Otto set standards of excellence for the magazine. "If you're lucky," says senior editor Nancy Gibbs, "you find one teacher like that in a lifetime." When a correspondent's interviews with celebrities from Madonna to Steven Spielberg caught his eye, Otto showed the pieces to publishers until one bought...
When Spielberg formed DreamWorks with Geffen and former Disney movie czar Jeffrey Katzenberg, he realized both his value to MCA (he had kept Universal profitable with such hits as E.T., Back to the Future and Jurassic Park) and his personal debt to Sheinberg, whom he calls a mentor. So DreamWorks said some of its products could be distributed by MCA-in a deal that could be worth $1 billion over the next decade-if Matsushita would keep Sheinberg and chairman Lew Wasserman aboard. The Japanese never responded to the offer...
...devised this technology herself, but she cannot control the environments she enters. As a result, she often finds herself in peril. Neverthe-less, she is unable to stay in the real world and relinquish virtual-reality voyaging. "You give it up, and you'll be free," says her mentor. "I'm free when I'm in there," Sydney blankly responds...