Word: poole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After workouts this summer, Foreman relaxed at his ranch house in the dry foothills outside Livermore, an agricultural community near Pleasanton. There, behind the locked gates of an imposing cyclone fence, he watched past fights on a video cassette machine, played pool in the downstairs den, and ate the steamed vegetables and lean steaks he prefers (when not training, he relishes fried buffalo fish and gargantuan vanilla ice cream sundaes). But most of all Foreman played with his pets-four dogs and two horses. Foreman is particularly proud of his two German shepherds, Pasha and Daggo. He commands them with...
...committee has interviewed six applicants and eliminated two, and will interview six or seven more before choosing Tonis's replacement, Hall said. Hall declined to name specific applicants, but did say that one in the final pool will be a woman...
...staff originally anticipated. Within the next month or two, the list of candidates will probably be narrowed down to about 25 or 30 firms which will then be closely scrutinized before the final selections are made. At least some of the firms selected will be asked to pool investment and economic information with Harvard Management in an experimental program to accumulate the best available information for investment strategy...
...will be asked to manage for Harvard is relatively small in comparison with many large fund or corporate accounts, but the prestige of managing part of Harvard's portfolio and the opportunity to engage in a unique and fiarly new financial arrangement has attracted an extremely large and diverse pool of applicants. Until the outside managers are selected, Harvard Management will continue to handle the entire portfolio...
...Simply to talk of "non-discriminatory" in an institution intent on enrolling more men than women is naive. Harvard's applicant pool is so over-qualified that any numerical limit on acceptances means arbitrary choice. The question centers on the principles that will guide such choices. Harvard's past practice demonstrates that, if possible, sexism will be one of those principles...