Word: recommender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to recommend budget priorities and where dollars ought to be spent on education and health-care facilities," said Chairman Watkins. Those decisions, he asserted, depend on data that should have been established by now. Such information could not only help resolve the controversy over just how vulnerable heterosexuals are to the disease but also identify new risk factors...
Mindich said the issues discussed at the conference were particularly timely, given the recent situation on Wall Street. "The people I met were very interesting," he said, adding, "I would definitely recommend the conference to other Harvard students...
Physicians advise that the study results do not point to a miracle drug that will provide a risk-free cure for heart disease. For example, gemfibrozil seems to predispose people to develop gallstones. Moreover, doctors recommend that anticholesterol drugs, including lovastatin, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in September, should be used only as a last resort...
...October crash had spawned more than half a dozen important investigations. One was a special three-person task force announced on Oct. 22 by President Reagan and headed by New York City Investment Banker Nicholas Brady. Its mandate: to study the market procedures that led to the crash and recommend ways to prevent a recurrence. Two other probes were started by the watchdog Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to study the extravagant volatility of stock and futures markets during the crash. Other studies of market behavior were being sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange...
...North House for example. But most SCR members say they generally attend only the formal SCR luncheons and dinners, where they are guaranteed the conversation of other faculty members. Some house masters also give SCR luncheons an added purpose by conducting house business--such as chosing which students to recommend for fellowships...