Word: merely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vagelos proves that corporate leaders can be straight shooters who are persuasive without being abrasive. To be sure, the trim, five-mile-a-day jogger, one of the few chief executives in the drug business with an M.D. degree (and a mere two weeks of business education from a Harvard seminar), is a demanding boss. "When the phone rings on a Sunday morning, you know it's Vagelos," says Edward Scolnick, president of Merck Labs. But the chairman also wins high marks for staying in touch with his staff. He keeps his spartan office open...
...HAVEN--The Harvard women's hockey team went to Eli country to meet Yale, a team that came to the game with a mere 1-6 Ivy League record. But that one win was against Brown, a team that has extended Harvard into overtime twice this season...
...council has abdicated its duty as the students' representative and become a mere social service agency at a cost to students of $20,000 a year. If the council wishes to justify this expense, it must expand its role beyond the glorified party DJ it currently is to voice student views--views it did not seek in doubling its fees. People will not take the council seriously until it takes itself seriously. As the council takes the significant move of doubling its fees, it must prove that an increase is justified, by taking student concerns seriously and acting upon them...
...doubt, Harvard will respond with the assertion that after a mere 20 rings, any phone number can be obtained from Information. Well, sure, the University hasn't gone so far as to make faculty office numbers secret--just a little hard...
...beaten by mere undergraduates, several alumni performers provided exceedingly memorable performances. Cornerpocket's scat chorus renditions of Count Basie's "Corner Pocket" and "Everybody's Bopping" were witty and technically excellent. It's no mean feat to interpolate into a single passage scat syllables and lines from both "I Got Rhythm" and the theme from The Flintstones--all while keeping a straight face...