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...Pfister was also appointed to a full professorship in the Biology department...
Donald H. Pfister, associate professor of Biology will officially take over as curator of the Farlow Herbarium and Library July...
...Pfister, whose scientific specialty is mycology--the study of fungi--has managed the gerbarium and library unofficially for six years since coming to Harvard in 1974, but his recent appointment makes the position permanent...
...fewer rental apartments are being built than in the mid-1970s. Rising costs of construction and of operating existing rental units have squeezed landlords. In Chicago, for instance, utility and fuel bills have been rising faster than the Consumer Price Index, while rents have lagged behind it. Says John Pfister, vice president of Chicago Title & Trust, a mortgage broker: "Most renters are getting a bargain. It is the landlords who are behind the eightball." The owner of an apartment building who converts it to a condominium or cooperative can reap a profit of 20%-and often much more...
...officials vehemently deny that their selective coverage is motivated by a hunger for higher ratings. "It's about time the conventions were covered like a news story, not a pageant," says Walter J. Pfister Jr., vice president for special television news programs. "We try to cover the convention the way you would edit a newspaper." For viewers who recall the long-winded platform debates and seconding speeches of previous conventions, that approach makes good sense...