Word: seminar
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...Massachusetts politics, the freshman Congressman won a tough primary fight in 1986, beating out a crowded field of candidates in a bitter campaign where the inexperienced Kennedy was generally considered a political lightweight. Shortly after the election, the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics sponsored a week-long seminar for incoming congressmen. Kennedy was described by participants as inattentive, impatient and flippant. After skipping a speech by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Voloker to attend a Boston Celtics Game, Kennedy told the press that "I didn't run for Congress to set a good attendance record in school...
Meanwhile, across the hall, communications consultant and Radcliffe seminar instructor Helen S. Weeks '73 stressed the importance of cooperation in mediating confrontations...
Compared with the sound-bite sparring on the nightly news, the 90-minute Wake Forest wordfest may seem like an advanced policy seminar. But the rigid format allows both men to get away with programmed answers and pretested prose. How can you get a sense of the real candidates lurking behind the campaign consultants? Ignore the mock theatrics and instead focus on those unscripted moments that provide a glimpse of how the two men think and react. Use this Spontaneity Scorecard to decide who best displays his fitness to be President, not guest host on the Johnny Carson show...
...Bank Board needs as much money as possible from private investors, since the cost of bailing out the savings industry could run as high as $100 billion. Fortunately, the message seems to be getting out. In San Francisco last month, more than 350 potential investors attended a Bank Board seminar on how to buy an S and L, and 500 others were turned away for lack of space in the meeting room. Just as important to the S and L industry as transfusions of money, though, are infusions of management skill. The economic convulsions suffered by the savings industry...
...deciding so, not to mention over the fundamental issue of who Jesus was. One eminent theologian, Yale University's George Lindbeck, finds the specialists' theories "mutually unintelligible" and not particularly helpful. The theories are also unstable. Funk admits that the "data base" of sayings being developed by his Jesus Seminar will no doubt have to be reworked by the next generation. At conservative Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary near Boston, David Wells complains, "The machinery has ground its material -- the biblical text -- so fine that it yields nothing...