Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I left Seattle I was desperately in love with a girl named Christina. Our relationship was showing the first signs of going ballistic when I left for Harvard. As time wore on it began to bear a distinct resemblance to a Six Flags roller coaster ride, complete with loop the loops and reality-defying twists and turns...
...nose at conventional wisdom. He buys companies or stocks when they are wildly unpopular and shuns anything that is remotely in vogue. "I'm always looking for companies that have real value," he says, "companies that we would be proud to own." Says E. John Rosenwald, an executive at Bear Stearns, a New York brokerage firm, and a Tisch family friend: "He's not a herd follower." Last year, for example, Tisch bought seven oil supertankers for a fraction of what it would have cost to build them. He is betting that the distressed oil industry will eventually rebound. Tisch...
...reaction -- if a spy is caught, take a hostage -- and monumentally miscalculated the degree of public fury that the seizure of Daniloff would provoke. That reading dictated putting off any retaliatory steps until after the Soviets had been given a way to save face. Says one Administration official: "The bear when cornered is ferocious." Yet the bear can also show a more agreeable side: on Saturday the Soviets announced they were allowing five well-known dissidents to emigrate, a positive gesture on the eve of the Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting. Initially, the Administration tried to play the whole affair...
From Boston City Hall to the Science Center, from New York's AT&T building to Seattle Center, dozens of buildings and hundreds of acres bear the stamp of Harvard design...
...Kramer, his wife and daughter took off to the northwest toward the Pacific in the four-seat Piper that he had purchased three years ago for $33,000. He then banked to the right and headed eastward toward Big Bear Lake. At that point he was in a sector far enough from LAX to avoid the controlled space if he kept his plane below 6,000 ft. Tragically...