Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard is also investigating alternatives ranging from increasing tuition to dropping its need-blind admission policy if Congress approves the cuts...
...will likely bring success. The Chinese-Vietnamese enmity may well be too bitter for either to allow the other to save face. The Vietnamese may be too arrogant to agree on reasonable terms with the United States. In the same way, the American bipolar view of the world could blind us to the possibility that the Vietnamese might be amenable to an agreement. And if no way can be found to minimize the influence of the Khmer Rouge forces, it seems to make little sense to ask the Vietnamese troops to leave. The best we could probably hope for under...
...innate taste, no question about that," says a former aide. "She has great instincts--and great blind spots. Sometimes she gets glamour, class and notoriety all mixed up." Frank Sinatra, whom she calls "Francis Albert," became an almost monthly White House visitor. When her aides suggested she invite Opera Star Frederica von Stade to perform at a state dinner in 1982, the unsure First Lady ordered them first to "check it out with Frank." Nancy also saw quite a lot of her rich bachelor friend Jerry Zipkin, a full-time Manhattan partygoer whom she has called "a modern-day Oscar...
...knew his best chance to get big money was from TV, and he staged a white-knuckle showdown among the networks. The absolute ceiling to shoot for, his own staff counseled, was $150 million. Ueberroth wanted more. He and others hatched what was, in effect, a one-shot blind bidding contest, and ABC, pulled along by the bold auctioneering, shut out the competition with a shocker of a bid: $225 million. Buoyed by the TV deal, he turned toward his other big source of revenue, America's largest corporations. To create an aura of coveted elitism, he drastically reduced...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: BORN IN THE U.S.A. (Columbia). Songs about bad memories and blind hope: rock record of the year...