Word: ryan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proceeds from the Dealing premier would go in part to Harvard Student Agencies "to be used for financial aid to students." This may sound like scholarships, but HSA doesn't give out scholarships; instead, the money will go into the conglomerate's general operating fund where, President Michael L. Ryan '72 explained lamely, it will help bolster a couple of their more struggling agencies...
...reliability of various charter outfits, and see nothing to be gained by forcing them to deal only with HSA, HSA, though it fought tooth-and-nail for this monopoly right, and though its rates are higher than the cheapest available, claims it makes no profit from charter flights. Michael Ryan's Minderbinderesque explanation was that "We get a cash flow out of Charter Flights rather than revenue," which--even ignoring questions of prevailing short-term interest rates--strikes us as bullshit...
...Coach doesn't like my scrambling very much," he admits, "mainly because he's afraid of injuries." Staubach, who at 6 ft. 3 in. and 195 lbs. is no muscular giant by pro standards, seems to be afraid of nothing. Says New York Jets Line Coach Buddy Ryan: "The others lay down on you before you can hit them. This Staubach guy thinks he's a running back. He's still trying to win the Heisman Trophy in the pros...
Some executives are worried that the present sluggishness in campus hiring may mean trouble for their companies in the future. "We will find out ten years from now that there is no one to fill the managerial ranks," predicts Monroe Sadler, Du Font's development chief. Dennis Ryan, placement director of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, adds: "The recruitment people know that this will create an air bubble in the pipeline five or ten years from now. But the personnel manager cannot get that message upstairs...
...Ryan fulminates against the inconstancy of women and the obsessive cowardice he sees sapping the strength of contemporary America. Penelope drops hints about "heroism and its sexual roots." Finally it is revealed that Ryan's breast-beating is a cover-up for persistent psychosexual anxiety. That is the sort of pop-psych insight that might make an acceptable reply from the agony columnist on a local paper. It emphatically does not do much to hold a play-or a movie-together...