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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wilson, a chemist who has been at Michigan for the past four years, has served on several national research committees, including the National Science Foundation advisory committee, where she worked with Horner...
Wilson came highly recommended for the post by Princeton University President Harold Shapiro, who appointed her vice president for research while he was at Michigan, sources said...
...Radcliffe post on July 1, she will have to guide a school that has changed dramatically in the years since Horner was chosen. During Horner's tenure, Radcliffe has ceded control of undergraduate life--academic and residential--to Harvard, while more than doubling its endowment and expanding its research programs...
Under deregulation, the rates that cable subscribers pay for basic service and rates for premium programs have moved in opposite directions. Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based research group and trade-magazine publisher, found that the average monthly charge for basic service climbed from $11.90 in 1986 to $14.40 last year, an increase of 21%. At the same time, the typical fee for premium offerings such as HBO and Showtime fell from $10.31 a month to $9.91, down nearly...
This summer, the experts say, everything old is gold again. "1989 has the makings to break all records," says Larry Gerbrandt of Paul Kagan Associates, a media-research firm. "We're seeing sequels to some of the most successful movies ever. And since no two of the big ones are being released head to head, each of them could hit a home run." Notes producer Laurence Mark: "Sequels aren't necessarily about a failure of the Hollywood imagination. They're about lowering risks." So why, in a business full of expensive risks, shouldn't Hollywood be allowed just one near...