Word: putnam
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...Putnam is a professor at Harvard University and the author of Bowling Alone
...Nolan, who sends her two children to the public, dual-language school on Putnam Avenue, is frustrated by the district’s perennial under-performance...
...Prize in physics for his development of the Renormalization Group (RG) into a central tool in physics.Wilson’s father, E. Bright Wilson Jr. was a professor of chemistry at Harvard. As an undergraduate, Wilson concentrated in mathematics, though he also studied physics. He won the prestigious Putnam fellowship, awarded to high scorers on a national collegiate math competition.Wilson described his time at Harvard as a “stimulating environment.” “The extraordinary members of the faculty I had access to, the fellow undergraduates that I knew, plus opportunities to participate...
...situation today because it's a demand-driven price," said House Energy Committee chairman Joe Barton, Republican from Texas, at a news conference Wednesday. House Ways and Means committee member Rep. Jim McCrery of Louisiana concurred: "I don?t think there?s any magic political solution." And Congressman Adam Putnam of Florida, a member of the House Republican leadership, says that at a bipartisan House and Senate meeting on gas prices with President Bush on Wednesday, all the participants from both parties recognized that "there are very few things we can do immediately" to reduce the price...
...thing Republicans on the Hill want to see more of from the White House is jawboning. "The Administration, especially the Energy department, needs to have a more aggressive information campaign," said Rep. Putnam. "They need to reassure the public. We need to have a barrage of administration officials out there carrying the message." As long as the message isn't "Conserve...