Word: seminar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowadays it is hard to find a foundation that hasn't scheduled a seminar about press credibility or a talk show that isn't discussing it. The press has been on a binge of self-consciousness for some time. Since it regards itself as more reliable and more professional than it used to be, why does it get less respect than Rodney Dangerfield...
...Mark Goulston, a Los Angeles psychiatrist: "Many rich people believe that they don't have the right to have problems. They often feel ashamed of complaining. There is an incredible loneliness at the top." Some efforts are being made to ease their plight. Six years ago, Gary began holding seminars and weekend retreats for the wealthy, where they could discuss the pressures on their lives candidly and confidentially. Such self-help gatherings are now held nationwide. Says one attendee: "It was the very first time I had been able to sit in a group of people and admit I have...
Some activities of the program will be organized on a University-wide scale, while others will be specifically geared towards law students and faculty. One seminar at the Law School will be used "as a forum for discussion of issues of social justice, for sharing student and faculty work and for discussing issues with outside scholars," Kennedy said...
...international labor leader, Kluncker is spending the semester at the Kennedy Schol as the first Jerry Wurf fellow. Kluncker, who hails from Stuttgart, is conducting a seminar series on international labor issues. The study group will analyze various labor issues--including deregulation and bargaining--and the relationship between worker organizations in the East and West...
...proves that corporate leaders can be straight shooters who are persuasive without being abrasive. To be sure, the trim, five-mile-a-day jogger, one of the few chief executives in the drug business with an M.D. degree (and a mere two weeks of business education from a Harvard seminar), is a demanding boss. "When the phone rings on a Sunday morning, you know it's Vagelos," says Edward Scolnick, president of Merck Labs. But the chairman also wins high marks for staying in touch with his staff. He keeps his spartan office open...