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...Freedman '57, who addressed faculty for the first time since taking over as president last July. In that speech, Freedman asserted that the current imbalance in the ratio between men and women "is not healthy to either the intellectual or social life of the students," according to Alfred T. Quirk, Dartmouth's dean of admissions...
...regulatory affairs. After a year, he went to work at the regulatory affairs executive office at the OMB, then returned to Justice to head the Antitrust Division. Impressed by his brainy efficiency, Meese recommended him to the President for the federal judiciary in 1986. There is only one quirk in the Ginsburg dossier: during his freshman year at Cornell, he dropped out and became a partner in a computer dating service, Operation Match, in Cambridge, Mass. He sold his share in the business after a couple of years and returned to school several thousand dollars richer...
...Harvard police were next on the scene, and about 10 minutes after the sighting MDC Lt. Thomas Quirk saw the boy floating face down 30 feet from shore and swam out to grab him. Other officers threw life preservers out to the pair to pull them...
...technology, show biz and sex appeal strikes many foreigners as the epitome of the American success story, and so they adopt English words that imply success itself: super, blue chip, boom, status symbol, summit. Some of that, clearly, is just snobbery. Through U.S. television, says British Grammarian Randolph Quirk, a foreigner can pick up an Americanized vocabulary "if you want to show you're with it and talking like Americans, the most fashionable people on earth." On the other hand, some upper-class Egyptian youths think it is chic to use Anglo-Saxon four-letter words like--well, merde...
...bill of rights is no more than a talking paper. But the voices belong to some powerful investors. "Management is going to have to pay a lot more attention to us," asserts New York's Goldin. Massachusetts Investment Chief Paul Quirk, a council member, agrees. Says he: "In takeovers, management could always count on our vote. Now that has all changed...