Word: stints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faculty and administrators were visibly elated by the gift. The usually staid Lewis--who is also McKay professor of computer science and taught Gates during his stint at Harvard--went so far as to shout "Yippee!" and share sparkling cider with students in his class, Computer Science 121, "Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation...
...Fossel, chairman of the $57 billion Oppenheimer Funds company, said just last week that he plans to parlay his prominence in the fund world into a stint as a TV talk-show host. Mutual-fund execs as celebrities is a clear sign of the market's sky-high profile...
...Jerry's in February 1995 and soon after began to clash with the forceful Cohen, who remains chairman and, along with Greenfield, still controls 42% of the company. Cohen denies any serious clashes. "That's not the way it felt to me," he says. He acknowledges that Holland's stint was short but says "changes in the marketplace" dictated his departure. Other insiders, though, say Cohen wasn't happy with some of the folks Holland hired and vetoed Holland's initial choice to fill at least one key slot...
...center of a large corruption scandal involving the 1989 document fraud along with two other charges, but is arguing that his poor health, and inadequate courtroom security for a person of his stature preclude his appearance. Rao resigned earlier this month after a five year stint as Prime Minister at the head of the Congress Party, under a cloud of corruption allegations. "Indians are fed up with corruption at all levels," says TIME's Dick Thompson. "When the allegations surfaced, they hit an important political nerve. It is even possible that the Indian Supreme Court is independently trying to move...
...eight-year fraud conviction (chief duty: cleaning halls and toilets), says he now realizes it was wrong for a man of God to be paid such a high salary. He learned this, he says, from the Bible, a book he was apparently not so familiar with before his prison stint. He also tells Walters that a fellow inmate tried to rape him twice, but he never snitched. If that revelation isn't enough, he says it led him to realize he was molested as a child by a man in his church. A doctor, he confided, has assured...