Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solar energy to power grossly inefficient supermarket frozen-food cases. The problem is that the fragmented industry-there are 1,400 wholesalers in business today-has difficulty amassing the will, much less the capital, to carry through such developments. Says Gordon Bloom, a senior lecturer at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and a leading food expert: "Because the industry operates on such a low profit margin, it won't spend two cents for technological innovation unless you can prove the payoff." Until it does, however, food can only continue gobbling more and more of the American family...
...tape of the meeting of the Generalissimo and General Joseph W. Stilwell, even with Chinese and English expletives deleted, would be monumental and would surpass any produced in the Oval Room concerning Watergate. Burrows Sloan Jr. Princeton...
...number of collectors began to multiply, Bill Sloan, a rancher from Saginaw, Texas, decided that he could profit from the hobby. He began by selling $5 barbed bracelets, then abandoned that scheme when he received barbed remarks from women with knit dresses. But he has sold 14,000 sets of six swizzle sticks ($12.50) fashioned out of 24-karat, gold-plated barbed wire...
...from the same pool of National Institute of Health and American Cancer Society grants, and he himself had sponsored the articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, America's equivalent of the Royal Society. Watson's New York friends, he admitted, had caught wind of "another Sloan-Kettering affair" (an April 1974 incident in which a cancer researcher named Summerlin at Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York was caught tampering with skin-graft data, and given a psychiatric leave) at Harvard...
...least some help in remedying the deficiency. We have just announced a fellowship program, to begin in the fall, carefully designed to provide eight journalists annually with a sophisticated knowledge of the tools and methods of economic analysis. The program, initiated and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will be housed at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. It will be a yearlong, highly structured program with much of the material particularly designed to meet journalistic requirements...