Word: sloan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they did not have all of their game. In Game 3 against the Jazz, the 96-54 blowout, that was exactly what they did: they did not shoot particularly well in the first half, but their defensive pressure and their almost instantaneous rotations on defense were dazzling. Afterward, Jerry Sloan, the Utah coach, himself a legendary defensive player, paid tribute to them: he had never seen defensive players quicker to the ball. That, of course, was what had made them champions over the years, the ability to exert their will over other teams that sometimes, on paper at least, seemed...
Returning to Cambridge brought a round of changes to Hafrey's life, beginning with his appointment to the position of lecturer at Harvard Business School. From there, Hafrey moved to MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he is now a senior lecturer in management communications and ethics...
...while the class remained marked by the War--it was not only the largest but the oldest in history--seniors in the class of 1948 could give up their war-torn fatigues and opt for what author Sloan Wilson would later call "the gray flannel suit" (on sale at the Coop for $45 to $60 by April...
...Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Dr. Mark Malkin is working with a substance that targets a receptor for another growth factor called PDGF (platelet-derived growth factor). This receptor studs the surfaces of cells in certain ovarian, prostate, lung and brain tumors. Malkin has been testing the drug, SU101, on patients with an extraordinarily deadly brain tumor called glioblastoma. Median survival for a patient found to have this cancer is 14 months...
Looking back at TIME's extensive coverage of cancer helped me put this hope and frustration into perspective. In 1949 we did a cover on cancer fighter Cornelius Rhoads, whose Sloan-Kettering Institute had tested 1,500 chemicals on mice in hopes of finding "chemotherapy" treatments. In a cover 10 years later, we predicted that "drug treatment will emerge as the equivalent of surgery and radiation," and quoted the National Cancer Institute's John Heller as saying, "I'm confident that we will have some success in the next few years...