Word: outgoingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"If you were writing a job description, that's what you'd write," Robert Solow says of Vest's resume. Solow chaired a faculty search committee to replace outgoing president Paul Gray.
"Americans are a lot more outgoing and friendly," Knight says. "In England, it seems a lot more close."
In fact, his belief in socially responsible education, together with an exacting standard of scholarly excellence in tenure promotions, forms the core of the outgoing president's academic philosophy, colleagues say.
Next month the 47-nation International Bureau of Exhibitions (B.I.E.) will choose among Venice, Hanover and Toronto as hosts for the fair. A consortium of 40 companies, ranging from Fiat to Benetton, Olivetti to Coca-Cola, is mounting a vigorous campaign for the honor, arguing that the Expo would breathe...
The final decision lies with the obscure B.I.E. The European Communities' Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana, an Italian, has demanded full environmental studies, and says triumphantly that doubts about the Venice site are setting in: "It will finish in the paper basket." But outgoing Mayor Casellati is still worried...