Word: piper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professor who taught this course, Kenneth E. Goodpaster, was denied tenure this year, and will leave the Business School in the fall. Senior Associate Dean of the Business School Thomas R. Piper said that the course would be offered next year, but would not say whether an ethics expert will be hired to teach...
...something. Nearly all the stories in Fast Lanes are, like their characters, fascinated with gymnasts, tightrope walkers and others who find ways to steady and ground themselves. And the best of them achieve that same happy balance of passion and precision that one Phillips character imagines from an angelic piper, "formal as a harpsichord yet buoyant, wild...
Atkins began playing Pied Piper to the rich in 1978 with a scheme that promised $4 in paper losses from securities trading for every $1 invested. He was only 24 when he started and 29 when the operation ended in 1983 amid lawsuits from angry investors who accused Atkins of having caused them huge losses. Many had felt queasy about trusting someone under 30, but were reassured by Atkins' plush, marble-floored offices at 500 Park Avenue, his impeccable grooming and the fact that his father was a well-known oil executive. The Tisches say they went along because their...
...pastel blue door black, the paint streaking down its surface in places. Though the teenagers of Bergenfield are frightened and hurt by the deaths of their friends, it may be the parents whose shock and fear are the greatest. The adults of Bergenfield can only pray that the Pied Piper visiting their town will spare the rest of their children. "When something like this happens, I think a lot about my kids," says Barbara O'Leary, a hostess at a local diner. "I have to hope I raised them right. These are the dangerous years. You don't always know...
...heat is finally up, which forces some of the pipes to go out of tune. Another hardship to overcome, but the pleasure of piping is earned through sacrifice. Says Britton: "I heard of one piper who had an operation to cut the skin between his fingers so he could stretch to reach the holes better. Personally, I think that's a little extreme -- but I understand the impulse...