Word: myron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they're making, so they invest a dollar and wish." But despite well-publicized accounts of overnight wealth (see box), a person is about 31½ times as likely to be killed by lightning as to win New York State's Lotto jackpot. "Sure, somebody wins," says Myron Powell, a retired Congregational minister who fought against the Massachusetts lottery a decade ago. "But 900,000 people lose, most of whom could not afford to play to begin with...
...Incremental improvements in the work-place really aren't the issue. If you want to change the South African system you have to work through legislative activity," Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics Myron Fiering, an ACSR faculty representative, said after the report was released...
When it was first staged in 1935, the play exploded in the faces of complacent audiences who regarded the theater as a means of escape from the Depression. Odets overturned every theatrical bromide. In the crucible of the Berger apartment, Bessie the mother is a tyrannical presence; Myron the father is an ineffectual bumbler. Their heroine daughter Hennie becomes pregnant, foists her child off on an unsuspecting immigrant husband, then runs off with a small-time racketeer. The grandfather spouts Marxist shibboleths ("Abolish private property"). The youngest Berger, Ralph, obviously a mouthpiece for the author, yearns to break free from...
...Myron B. Fiering '55, Gordon McKay Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics is studying the possibility of a "telescoping" goalpost which officials could lower into the ground at the end of a game...
...table in a Kremlin banquet hall. It was symbolic confirmation of the vexing problem that faced the Soviet Union as it prepared for the second transition of power in only 15 months: there was no obvious candidate to fill the vacancy left by Andropov. Says Cornell University Political Scientist Myron Rush: "Since nobody is in a strong position, practically everybody is in a strong position...