Word: mountainer
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...others now echo what Harvard officials said at the time: with a mountain of educational prestige, the University could survive a semester's learning curve. Not wishing to endanger its financial reserves with an unsustainable knee-jerk reaction, Harvard bided its time. And 8 out of 10 admitted students agreed, accepting Harvard's acceptance...
Daewoo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS) Ramchandran Jaikumar suffered a fatal heart attack on Feb. 10, while mountain climbing in Ecuador...
Jaikumar was also widely published and served as an advisor to two congressional committees. Mountain climbing was one of his favorite pursuits. As a guide in the Himalayas during his college years, Jaikumar climbed a 23,000-foot peak in 1966. Last year, he became the first person to reach the top of a remote peak in Greenland, naming it "Minarjnik" after his wife, Mrinalini Mani, and his two sons, Arjun and Nikhil...
Microsoft remembers it differently. Dan Rosen, a top Gates lieutenant who attended the final round of negotiations, recalls the Netscapers as being tense and openly distrustful. He attributes the breakdown to the "culture" of Silicon Valley. "The antibodies floating around in Mountain View were just too powerful to allow even a sensible business deal to blossom," he says...
Thomson points out that if one or two large Asian parties default on their derivative contracts, computer screens around the world can be hit within seconds and instantly threaten other contracts. "It's like a bunch of climbers on a mountain all tied by a rope. But if one climber slips and falls into a crevasse, he can quickly drag the other climbers to their end with little chance of time for rescue," says Thomson...