Word: mentoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...animal-language experiments had an awards dinner, the prize for best accent would go to the befeathered Alex. The parrot acquired his Midwestern accent from his mentor, Pepperberg. She became intrigued by the language work with great apes in the 1970s and decided to examine the abilities of an animal with an entirely different brain structure. She chose parrots in part because they can actually talk and because studies had established that the birds could perform as well as chimps on some psychological tests, suggesting that brain size is not the only determinant of mental ability...
...time he was 15, Jones was feeding arrangements to jazz great Count Bassie, "He was like a father, like a brother a mentor for me," Jones said...
MacLaren said women, faculty and students consider Bane a mentor and her departure would leave only junior faculty members as role models...
...None of us had ever played the instruments we were playing," says Demay. "My roommate had a guitar and he taught me a few things, the power chords. He's my mentor...
...term as Chairman, Powell's official position is that "my plans are to finish my tour as scheduled." But there are signs that his plans could change. He is rumored to have held job talks with the Carlyle Group, a Washington investment firm headed by his old mentor and boss, former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci. (Two other rumored Carlyle hires: former Secretary of State James Baker and Budget Director Dick Darman.) Powell, who lives in government housing, has asked a real estate agent to find a home for him in the $1 million range, a figure not ordinarily within...