Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might make a comparison between this case and another case, or ask questions," Dreben says. "I feel obliged to bring out the [historical perspective], but the dean also does that. We work in tandem...
...displays the same perfectionism toward a collection of-very new companies. As a founding partner of San Francisco's Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, he has since 1972 managed four venture-capital funds that have invested $80 million in 65 companies, including Genentech, a leader in genetic engineering, and Tandem Computers, a rising manufacturer of large mainframe machines. The original $200,000 that Perkins' firm put into Genentech is worth $60 million today, while its $1.5 million stake in Tandem has grown to $250 million. Like many venture capitalists, Perkins often helps run the companies he invests...
Fanning's editorial reconception of the paper, aided by Design Consultant Robert Lockwood, who has also advised the Chicago Sun-Times, Dallas Morning News and Baltimore Sun, was carried out in tandem with an aggressive circulation and advertising plan developed by John Hoagland, the paper's chief business executive. One key decision was to drop the paper's regional sections and publish a single national edition...
Could the Soviets have mistaken their target for a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane that had been on a mission in the region near where the Korean jet went off course? Marshal Ogarkov reiterated the Soviet claim that the KAL plane was on a spy mission and flew in tandem with the RC-135 for ten minutes so that the blips of the two planes merged on Soviet radar screens. When they separated, he implied, the Soviets could not tell which was which. U.S. officials dismiss this scenario as ludicrous. The two planes, they say, passed each other 86 miles...
...Jemison also had ties with Jackson. In 1953, when Jackson was elected president, Jemison had been chosen general secretary, and year after year the two were re-elected in tandem. Privately, Jemison was not happy with the group's aloof stance toward the civil rights movement. "It was very difficult," he admitted last week. "I sat through it out of loyalty to the leadership. All I could do then was sit and cry within." Jemison, whose dying father had told him that "God would pass the leadership of the convention to me," bided his time, waiting for Jackson...