Word: reisman
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...seemed by many--because of his theoretical evaluations--to be very aloof and intramural to the academy, but he wasn't," Reisman said...
While both sides agreed on the goal of free trade, working out the details proved to be maddeningly complex. Just three weeks ago, Simon Reisman, Canada's chief negotiator, stormed out of the talks in Washington and flew home. The major sticking point was agreement on a mechanism to resolve trade conflicts. At Mulroney's insistence, the Canadians returned to the bargaining table, but the wrangling continued until the deadline day. Finally Mulroney's chief of staff, Derek Burney, asked U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker when would be a good time for the Prime Minister to call the White House...
...David Reisman, Harvard sociologist...
...course, mean to suggest that there are no contemporary trends, mainly an increased interest in the study of cognitive processes, but obviously cognitive processes have developmental, social, and personalistic aspects. I do not think that our department will ever be tempted to make a general withdrawal from what David Reisman once aptly characterized as the "juicy" problems of psychology. That is, in fact, one of the mistakes we sought to remedy in 1972 by putting together the psychology in Memorial Hall with the varieties from Social Relations. Even what Professor Reisman characterizes as our past considerable commitment to the "murky...
...chair was endowed in 1985, with a gift of more than $1.25 million from Boston businessman George C. Reisman. Very little is known about the donor, said Med School spokesman Lillian F. Blacker. "He has remained very shy of public attention," she said...