Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columbia's losing streak reached such awesome proportions that opposing teams began to fear it. Who would be the first team to fall to the losing Lions? Who would be the coach to bear the stigma: I lost to Columbia...
...comparison, plays cunning tricks with dimension, makes the teddy- bear-size female gymnasts seem larger than they are, the redwood basketball players smaller. And TV distances as it disinfects, replacing an event with a picture of an event, the unimaginable with an image. Most of all, TV, by breaking down miracles into their component parts, makes them somehow add up to less than the whole -- unweaves, in Keats' phrase, the rainbow...
...Moscow where Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev strolled during the May summit. All references to stocks, which are not sold in the Soviet Union, have been changed to bonds. But the familiar tokens -- the car, the dog, even the plutocrat's top hat -- remain the same, although a Russian bear will be added. Who knows? Another October Revolution may break out when Soviet citizens discover the joys of passing Go and collecting 200 rubles...
Beginning last spring, Beijing mandated a new push to decontrol the prices of such commodities as popular-brand cigarettes and liquor. Prices were allowed to rise from artificially low levels, often set as far back as the 1950s, to whatever the market would bear. But the plan covered only about half of all commodity prices. The rest, including those of such agricultural staples as rice and other grains, have generally remained fixed under the old rules. This two-tier approach has led to some economic absurdities: farmers, for example, must buy fertilizer at high, decontrolled prices but sell their grain...
...established long ago, Miller said the University may not defy the donors' stipulations. For instance, the Charles Downer Scholarship Fund, set up in 1927, states that, "Scholarships shall first be awarded to students of the University, whether in the academic department or in any graduate or professional school, who bear the family name or surname of Downer...