Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administrators note that the competition among graduate programs for the small number of minorities interested in entering the profession is high. And the GSAS recruitment strategy is designed accordingly, with a large budget, carefully targeted mailings and many recruitment trips geared toward identifying minorities who are both qualified and interested...
...Gregorian prepares to take the top post at Brown in April, he is rarely referred to as a fundraiser. Instead those who chose him and those who work with him note that he is warm and affable, an Armenian, Beiruteducated scholar passionately interested in Middle Eastern history. To fellow scholars he is known as the man who speaks seven languages and who at the age of 54 has received national teaching awards in three countries...
...tale begins on July 26, when Annie Hearin gave a brunch at home for her bridge club. Sometime between 3 p.m., when the maid left, and 4:30 p.m., when Robert returned home, Annie vanished. Police later discovered blood on the front door and an unusual ransom note near...
...note demanded that Hearin "put these people back in the shape they was in before they got mixed up with" School Pictures. Although no amounts were specified, the twelve named in the letter are former franchisees who were sued by Hearin for nonpayment of bills. "Like any businessman, I have made decisions which may appear to others as unfeeling, but those appearances are not true," Hearin said at a press conference. "Moreover, those decisions were mine, not my wife's, and she had nothing to do with them...
...been handed down to such Democratic nominees as Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Walter Mondale. But since Democrats of late have had little to be cheerful about, the tune was not heard in Atlanta. Manny Harmon, the Los Angeles bandleader who has played at Republican Conventions since 1956, took note and helped make the decision to use the song. "You know, it's a Democratic song," said Harmon with a wink. "But we made a new arrangement...