Word: roberte
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Academic Dean Albert Carnesale, who has advised Dukakis on nuclear power issues, including the controversial evacuation plans involving the Seabrook, N.H. nuclear power plant, is also mentioned as a possible appointee, as is Lecturer in Public Policy Robert Reich, an economist with strong ties to the Democratic party...
ALTHOUGH I am white and middle-class, I grew up not far from the all-Black Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago, one of the first and largest high-rise housing projects in the nation. My family would have to drive by them when we left our neighborhood to shop, and I was always frightened by the mysterious, ghost-town atmosphere that hung over the homes. As I grew older, I learned to be frightened by the stories of drugs, gangster wars and filthy conditions told to me by friends who had friends in the projects and by the evening news...
Last year, Newsweek published a cover story titled "Brothers," which chronicled the reunion of 12 black men who grew up together in the Robert Taylor Homes. In 1962, when it opened, the housing project was a highly-touted social experiment, and a real opportunity for low-income Black families--a way out of the slums and tenements controlled by greedy white landlords. Brothers is the expanded, book-length account of the lives of these 12 men, and tells their compelling stories with a depth that was missing in the otherwise excellent article...
...analysis that followed the Challengerdisaster led to 56 major and more than 400 minorhardware modifications--and a new, moreconservative launch procedure. Conservative ornot, NASA launch supervisor Robert Crippen granteda waiver of wind guidelines to move the launchforward. NASA said he met with his 21-personoversight team, reviewing an analysis of the windsituation, before approving the waiver
Bequests often allow Harvard to expand the criteria for scholarships if no one has fulfilled the original prerequisites, Miller said. The William Pennoyer Bequest of 1670 offers assistance to any descendant of Robert Pennoyer, or, alternatively, a student born in New Haven...