Word: rand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet, but Lewis would have none of it. "No, Bennett. This is my night," he declared. "Haven't you been a publisher long enough to understand I don't want to share it with some other author?" For pure ego, however, no one could match Ayn Rand. When Cerf tried to persuade her to cut a 3 8-page speech from Atlas Shrugged, she simply replied, "Would you cut the Bible?" Cerf once again gave...
These findings, says Myers, contradict a recent Rand Corp. study (TIME, June 21) that suggested some alcoholics could safely return to moderate drinking. He points out that even after nine months of abstention the rats preferred alcohol over water. This strongly bolsters his suspicion that alcoholism is due not to social conditioning-as the Rand study implied-but to lasting chemical changes in the brain. Still, Myers, who has also discovered a chemical that reduces alcohol consumption in addicted animals, holds out hope. If alcoholism is really rooted in brain chemistry, a drug treatment may be devised to help...
...Tamara Rand, 54, San Diego businesswoman, murdered at home in November 1975 to keep her from telling what she knew about Mob-dominated gambling casinos in Las Vegas...
Feeling uncomfortable in Cambridge's doctrinaire liberal climate, the conservative Schlesinger took a teaching post at the University of Virginia, where he wrote a book titled The Political Economy of National Security. It caught the eye of top executives at the Rand Corp., the U.S.'s premier think tank, who hired Schlesinger as a senior staff member. He later became director of strategic studies. At Rand, Schlesinger proved, as one colleague recalls, that "he could out-McNamara Mc-Namara"-then the cerebral Defense Secretary and systems analyst par excellence...
...winter supposedly becomes spring, and the snow supposedly disappears, Dave Rand becomes a student once again--supposedly. He's not a great ski jumper, but he's the best at Harvard, and that's my justification for having written a column about him. Supposedly...