Word: 47th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...detractors. He has plenty to choose from. Some of the Greeley haters may be simply envious: the author owns a sunny, three-bedroom house in Tucson, where he spends a semester each year teaching sociology at the University of Arizona. He keeps a two-bedroom condominium on the 47th floor of the chic John Hancock Center in Chicago, where he conducts widely respected studies at the National Opinion Research Center. And he has a beach cottage on Lake Michigan, where he water-skis, sails and-as he does everywhere-writes...
...Commonwealth ranks 47th in the nation in appropriations per capita for higher education a study sponsored by the Massachusetts Higher Education Action Council and the state Board of Higher Education shows. The report released this week after two years of preparation, concludes that at a time when the Reagan Administration is proposing unprecedented reductions in federal support for education, it is crucial that Massachusetts provide funding for its students...
...first meeting was held in Smith's 47th-floor offices in downtown Los Angeles. In general, the group looked for the same qualities that might be found in the chief executive officer of a major corporation: proven competence, team work, experience and toughness. Since the participants had been dealing with one another for so many years, there were no personality clashes. Said one member of the panel: "It was like an after-lunch conversation at a private club. Everyone pretty much respected what the other guy was trying...
...after eating some spoiled dormitory food the previous evening, serveral young women had been stricken with upset stomachs. The graduation caps, the matron suggested, would make convenient containers during the afternoon ceremony. Fortunately, all the caps stayed pinned to the graduates' heads. And the Radcliffe Class of '30, the 47th class to graduate from that college, crossed the platform to shake President Comstock's hand, stepped off the college stage and entered the sobering realities of the Depression...
...lines of sellers one or two at a time into the precincts of Johnson Matthey & Co., metal dealers, while tough-looking street traders sidle up to impatient standees. "Are you sellin', luv?" coos one, whipping out brass scales and rolls of pound notes. On Manhattan's West 47th Street signs blossom in jewelers' windows: "We pay the highest. Don't settle for less. Come...