Word: recoverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A man Harvard hired to recover $5 million in rare coins stolen from the Fogg Museum in 1973 has reportedly been indicted along with another man by a Bristol County grand jury for assault and battery with intent to kill.
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said Wednesday that Harvard has no knowledge of Palmer's involvement in Richards's investigation. In a June 3 statement, Steiner said Richards had acted independently in his efforts to recover the coins.
Estimates of the value of the stolen coins, nearly all of which are still missing, have ranged from $1 million to $11 million. Steiner said Harvard is still trying to recover the missing coins with the help of official law enforcement agencies.
Slow v. Fast. Predictably, the recovery has had widely varying impacts in different parts of the country. New York State and New England, handicapped by high fuel prices, wages and taxes, are emerging most slowly from the recession. California is only beginning to recover, because two of its main industries...
> Coolness. The capacity to recover from a gaffe, react calmly to a reverse, adjust to the unexpected.