Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Howe at first acknowledged that she holds a yearly raffle. But when pointed out that she has no raffle license, Howe changed her story and said, "It's not a raffle. It's a door prize...
...NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Committee's honoring of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was at best premature, and at worst an admission of the shallowness of the award itself. Though both heads of state should be commended for their long-awaited search for peace, the negotiated Camp David framework still leaves the future stability of the Middle East uncertain. There is no doubt that in taking the peace initiative and in alienating himself from the rest of the Arab community, Sadat took a courageous step. Similarly, Begin's receptiveness deserves recognition. But the Nobel Peace Prize...
Simon is determined not to let the luster of the prize change his life. On entering his first class the day after the Nobel announcement, Simon was greeted with a standing ovation from his jubilant students. He smiled, thanked them, and without further ado went into his lecture on cognitive psychology...
...says Harvard Economist Otto Eckstein. 'The one man in the world who has come closest to being a Renaissance man," opines Richard Cyert, president of Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU). These were some of the reactions to the surprise award last week of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Economics to Herbert A. Simon, 62, a professor of psychology and computer science at CMU. Choosing Simon may be an attempt by the Nobel committee to broaden the basis for the economics prize, which has come under muted criticism for being too narrowly focused; some economists believe the prize...
...Good Morning America. From her humble beginnings as a syndicated newspaper humor columnist, Bombeck has evolved into a TV personality of the most plastic sort. She delivers her one-liners in a strident vibrato; she luxuriates in canned laughter as though it were the praise of a Nobel Prize jury. Bombeck used to satirize the vulgarity of American suburbia; now she epitomizes...