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...addition to more than 2000 Harvard-Radcliffe students, about 5000 students from Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley are participating in the study, funded by a $685,000 grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation...
...rather than weaken their intended victim. The U.N. embargo of Rhodesia, which began in 1966, spurred that country to improve greatly its own domestic manufacturing capacity. Some scholars believe that the same thing could happen in the Soviet Union. Says Robert L. Paarlberg, a professor of political science at Wellesley: "Sanctions might stimulate the Soviets to develop more indigenous technological capabilities that might in the long run strengthen the Communist state...
Nabokov's original audiences were undergraduates at Wellesley and Cornell in the 1940s and 1950s. He had sojourned in England and Germany before moving to America in 1940. He began to write in English and taught college literature courses (including a seminar at Harvard) for a living. The extraordinary success of Lolita in 1958 allowed him to retire from the world...
...indeed what Michael B. Poliakoff thinks of when someone mentions wrestling. An assistant professor of Greek and Latin at Wellesley College, Poliakoff dubs himself the "world expert of ancient wrestling because no one else is even interested...
...long. Says John F. Cunningham, executive vice president of Wang Laboratories: "Of top management in the FORTUNE 1,000, less than ½% today use office automation equipment themselves. By 1991 the figure will probably be 50%." Adds Robert Morrill, vice president for marketing at Prime Computer Inc. of Wellesley Hills, Mass., a leading office products concern: "We sense an explosion of interest from engineers, financial analysts and market planners. We are focusing on the productivity of the professional as opposed to that of the clerical. It is an untapped market where there has been little real productivity gain since...