Word: mentored
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...telephoned a number of friends among the other Republican Governors for their counsel and has met privately with Washington fund raisers and Republican high rollers, could reach a final decision later this month. One of the first to nudge Wilson toward a '96 run was an old mentor, Richard Nixon. Wilson entered politics as a 28-year-old advance man for Nixon. In April 1993, Wilson and Nixon met privately in the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. It was a clap on the back for the Governor, who at the time was trailing Brown in the polls by 20 points...
Those speaking recalled Griswold, who died on November 19 at age 90, as a stern but caring mentor and friend...
...McArthur also wrote in a letter datedyesterday that the death of his mentor, George P.Baker, '25 and the birth of his granddaughtercontributed to his decision...
Allan Sandage is angry at his astronomical brethren too, but his beef is just the opposite of Lauer's. The Carnegie Observatories astronomer has spent much of his nearly 40-year career trying to measure the age of the universe; it's a task he inherited from his mentor Edwin Hubble, the legendary scientist who discovered that the universe is expanding and that galaxies exist beyond the Milky Way. For decades, Sandage's results have suggested that the cosmos is 15 billion to 20 billion years old or thereabouts. That fits beautifully with cosmological theories-but almost nobody believes...
Thiessen's mentor, Dr. Marian Lewis of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, has championed his proposal and assisted the first-year in getting permission to send his experiment on the Shuttle...