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...hackberry tree. At noon dinner he loaded up his plate with fried chicken and mashed potatoes and took a seat with a cousin on the back porch. Wes cleaned his plate. His cousin did not. Aunt Ida came inspecting. She spied the wasted food, stopped and delivered a stern dose of family doctrine: "Waste not, want not." Right then another remarkable career may have been started through the mixture of Eisenhower family values and the ethic of that prairie society. Jackson, now one of the nation's most renowned and innovative agriculture researchers, founded the Land Institute in Salina, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Why We Still Like Ike | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Jatoi, in a broadcast announcement before results were announced, warned that anyone instigating trouble would be "dealt with a stern hand...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Bhutto's Party Loses Election | 10/25/1990 | See Source »

...niche in the Statistics Department, says his academic adviser, Assistant Professor of Statistics Hal Stern, but still "wasn't certain that he belonged...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: One Harvard Student's Attempt To Make A Difference | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...Stern thinks that Starr's reports of copyright infringements may relate to "his internal struggle to figure out what was going...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: One Harvard Student's Attempt To Make A Difference | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...sits bolt upright, his hands folded neatly on the oak table in front of him. A dark suit and subdued tie reinforce the image of a stern military man, someone just as capable of offering an interrogator no more than name, rank and serial number as he is of impassively handing down a tribunal's verdict. Not even his eyes, hidden behind dark glasses, give anything away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland The Man Who Did His Duty | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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