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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fill the Financial Systems post created a conflict of interest in Wyatt's work. His interest in running OIT smoothly and on an even financial keel, Brown-Beasley suggests, was likely to influence the advice Wyatt and his staff would offer as head of Financial Systems (indeed, Wyatt's success on this front was cited this summer when he was named to the vice presidential post); In other words, in his second position Wyatt held a consulting veto power over decisions like whether or not to contract for work from OIT. From the Financial Systems post, Brown-Beasley adds, Wyatt...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Challenging Harvard's top dogs | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...bureau does not have a follow-up procedure for those who do take time off, while the average period of consultation for a student not seeking remedial help in a specific area is only four-to-six visits, Morimoto says. As for the success of years off, judging again only from his personal knowledge of cases, Morimoto is fairly positive. "Generally people have found it quite helpful to take time off. But very often expectations are too high and it turns out to be considerably less of a success than what they'd hoped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grades, campaigns and other reasons | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...return. "My parents both lack job security and they wanted to make sure I got through school as quickly as possible." So Moeller shortened her year off into a semester, and in retrospect, save for her time spent cooking, she judges the experience to have been a complete success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grades, campaigns and other reasons | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...kind of excited about going back to school and much more comfortable about my potential for working." He will again live on campus in a Harvard House--socially Collins does not rate the year off as having been a huge success. He didn't meet many new people, and spent much of his time with college friends around Harvard. Like Emerson, he also spent a good deal of time by himself, and his primary reason for deciding to live on campus was "to meet people and to be with people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grades, campaigns and other reasons | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...success or failure of the new schedules will immediately affect the financial well-being of the networks. The bigger the audience for any show, the fatter the advertising revenues that flow into the network: a winner can charge up to $140,000 a minute for commercials, enough to pay the entire cost of a 30-minute show; a loser may get only $90,000. The difference of one Nielsen rating point for a season, reflected in advertising rates, can mean the loss or gain of $15 million in one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Boom Tube's Prime Time | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

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