Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem is that the pool of people is a small pool," Allison said. "Last year I said that I was going to make at least one appointment of either a female or a minority to the faculty. We ended up hiring Shirley Williams." The former British politician was tenured this fall...
...Crimson missed a power-play opportunity and Kaoki Jackson responded on the other end of the pool to cut MIT's deficit to two goals. Following freshman Peter Richard's missed shot on another man-up situation, Will Schror's third goal of the game pulled the Engineers to within one, 5-4. When goalie Paul Wysocki saved Harvard Co-Captain Eric Bentley's next shot, it looked like the Crimson was in jeopardy of losing its Top-20 national ranking...
...retired and living in Williamsburg, Va., Meyers still remembers the us- and-them mentality of the Nixon campaign. "The press pool would be put in the rear of the plane and kept away from things," Meyers recalls. Morale became so bad that the Nixon people added another public relations man to the staff to entertain reporters. "One of his talents was making funny little animals out of balloons," Meyers laughs. "But once you've seen one little animal, you've satisfied a lifetime need...
...reason for the surge in older students is demographic. The baby bust of the late '60s and '70s has meant a shrinking pool of college-age youngsters. To fill half-empty lecture halls -- and depleted coffers -- schools have actively begun to court members of the over-25 set. At the same time, the shift toward service industries and advanced technology has made higher education attractive to workers who want or need to upgrade their careers. "The changing world of work brings lots of people back," says Harvey Stedman, dean of New York University's School of Continuing Education...
Novelist Larry McMurtry converts facts into folklore, tapping themes that belong to our cultural gene pool. -- William Shawcross recounts the decline and fall of the Shah of Iran...