Word: steins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...briefly in 1953. Walter Heller played a dominant role in shaping the economic policies of the Kennedy and early Johnson Administrations, but President Nixon listened far more to his Treasury Secretaries, George Shultz and John Connally, than to his CEA chairmen. The council reached its lowest point under Herbert Stein, who not only was overshadowed by Shultz in policy-making but also defended Administration policy so incessantly as to arouse suspicion that politics was warping his professional judgment. Alan Greenspan* restored the CEA's professional respectability largely by staying out of the public eye and talking primarily to President...
...illustrious predecessors: the Greek poet Pindar (circa 500 B.C.) wrote an ode without using the letter sigma. Lewis Carroll, an Oxford mathematician better known for the Alice books, liked to mix the logic of numbers with the freedom of dreams. In this century, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings and Vladimir Nabokov all enjoyed the pleasures of arithmetic while exploring the peripheries of language. But it was not until 1960 that the newly formed OuLiPo officiated at the shotgun wedding of science and literature. Its first and still most remarkable product was Cent Milie Milliards de Poems (A Hundred Thousand...
Current tri-captain Jeff Campbell did not let the graduation losses bother him, as he ran a 4:12.4 mile to lead Reed Eichner and Stein Rafto in a sweep of that event...
...Stein Rafto, who ran a strong 11th in the IC4A meet. "Stein is incredibly looser," Fitzsimmons said. "Last year, he psyched himself up too much...
Jeff Campbell capped his last race for Harvard as the first Crimson finisher, placing 62nd in the race at a time of 29:47. Teammate Stein Rafto followed seven seconds later at 104, and Peter Fitzsimmons came in third for Harvard, 141st in the race...