Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rashid and A Thousand and One Nights. Although the battlefronts along the Shaft al Arab are more than 300 miles away, Iranian aircraft have brought the war to the Iraqi capital with repeated bombing raids against military and industrial targets. TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart and Correspondent Adam Zagorin report on the mood of the city...
Other Harvard finishers included Schuler who clocked a 25:17 race for 17the place, and Adam Dixon who finished five seconds later for the 18th spot...
Harvard took off at a fast pace over the relatively smooth five-mile course. Going into the two mile mark, Murphy and teammates Logan. Adam Dixon, Peter Johnson, Eric Schuler, and Paul McNulty were all bunched together in the lead...
Dartmouth captured third and fourth in 29:48 and 30:11 respectively, while Harvard's Adam Dixon had to settle for fifth...
DIED. Bruce A. Gimbel, 67, merchant-sportsman who for 22 years headed the department-store chain that grew out of a single emporium in Indiana established by his grandfather Adam in 1842; of cardiac arrest; in Greenwich, Conn. An avid private pilot as well as a shrewd businessman, Gimbel led the chain's expansion into the growing suburbs in the '50s. In 1973 he negotiated sale of the firm, then 10% owned by the Gimbel family and now comprising 69 Gimbels and Saks Fifth Avenue stores, to a subsidiary of the British-American Tobacco Co. for $195 million...