Word: mentored
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...year, No. 1 Ohio State vs. No. 2 Michigan, which Ohio State won, 42-39. In 1969, his first year at Michigan, Schembechler sent ripples through the college-football world by leading the struggling Wolverines to a 24-12 upset over Ohio State, coached by his friend and mentor, the irascible Woody Hayes. That game lifted the century-long rivalry to a more explosive level; it remains college football's fiercest. An unrelenting disciplinarian, Schembechler, who compiled a 234-64-8 career record over 26 years, collapsed after taping a TV preview of the big game--a show he insisted...
...friend and mentor and inspiration all my life. He and his wife Rose, his constant colleague and support, were lifelong friends of my parents Herbert and Mildred Stein after they met at the University of Chicago in the mid '30s. My father, a distinguished economist himself and chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under Nixon and briefly under Ford, forever stood in awe of the man. As my pop said many times, "Friedman was like every other economics student at Chicago in those days except twice as smart...
...downtrodden but would empower them. His work with the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile was widely reviled, but Chile is now the free-market powerhouse of the Andes and a democracy. These principles paid off for whole populations in South America, in Russia and in Asia. He was the mentor to Ronald Reagan, to Bush 41, even to Nixon--who did not quite believe just how strong Friedman's arguments were and went ahead and imposed ineffectual price-wage controls...
...straight-up rehash of the harder elements of early ’90s G-Funk, adding one element—an Eminem-esque fascination with other rappers and their feelings. The results are decidedly mixed. Game openly expresses his overwhelming desire to be liked and accepted by his mentor and former producer, Dr. Dre, and it weighs down the album. And by “weighs down,” I mean “sinks.” What makes it all worse is that Dre doesn’t even appear on the album. He takes...
...place of a student center.” Director of the Harvard College Women’s Center Susan B. Marine emphasizes that the Women’s Center centralizes the already-existing resources related to women’s issues.“We run a large mentor program, we provide funding for women’s issues events through the [Ann Radcliffe Trust],” says Marine. “Our mission is very different from a student center, yet we’re also to trying to be a comfortable space and I don?...