Word: renowned
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...year-old Georgi, a bearded, august professor, might seem like an unlikely feminist. But if anyone has the heft to make change, he does. The physicist learned his scientific ABCs at the College from Nobel Prize-winner Julian Schwinger, won renown in the lab, and eventually assumed the chairmanship of Harvard’s physics department...
Long before Eliot Spitzer achieved national renown by attacking corporate misdeeds as New York's attorney general, there was the California Public Employees' Retirement System, or CalPERS. For years, CalPERS used the leverage of its enormous investment portfolio to rail against companies that it believed were badly run or acting irresponsibly. When the Enron debacle ushered in an era of scandals, CalPERS's leadership made it an instant star of the corporate-reform movement...
...school full of “the best and the brightest,” some hard-working Harvardians recognize that competition in the inevitable job search will be fierce. These students hold high-ranking extracurricular positions that sizzle with the promise of money, renown and status...
Against all odds, it turns out science core professors have a sense of humor to match their shiny awards and international renown. And, even more surprising, this sense of humor can find its way into their lectures, some of which are—thank God—taped for posterity and available for ready viewing online...
...fame and renown of this university is hardly confined to the travel pages of web portals: just ask anyone from Harvard, Massachusetts. Or Harvard, Arkansas. Or California. Or Floriada, Idaho, Ilinois, Iowa, or Maryland: there are municipalities named Harvard in eleven states. That doesn’t include Colorado’s Mount Harvard, or the Harvard Glacier in Alaska. The Harvard name appears throughout the history of the United States, and recurs in newspaper headlines with unrivalled frequency. In the past six months, the Harvard name has appeared in roughly two-and-a-half times as many newspaper headlines...