Word: board
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recommendations from the Coop's auditing company, Arthur Anderson and Co., determine the rebate percentage. The recommendation must be approved by the general manager and voted on by the board of directors...
...absence. Because the program is sponsored by a single professor, not directly by Harvard the funds come from outside sources. Without what has been described as "the magic of Kissinger's name", it is difficult to raise the $80,000 necessary to fund the participant's transportation, room and board and $15 a week spending money...
...your partner as he laid down his hand and you realize that you have a fifty-fifty chance of making the contract, depending on where the king of clubs lay. Naturally you take the first trick with the ace, play out two rounds of trumps, ending on the board and lead a small club for the finesse. Down one. If you endorse this line of play it is suggested that you read this column more often...
Actually, there is a method which makes this contract icy. All south has to do is to take the first trick with the ace, and take out trumps in two rounds. He then cashes his two top Diamonds and ruffs a third on the board. Declarer then gets back into his hand with a trump trick and leads a heart, knowing West holds the queen, from his lead. West must come up with the queen, and, not able to exit with a red card which would give his opponent a ruff and discard is forced to return a club, giving...
...word spread through the newsroom like a FLASH-IMMEDIATE wire bulletin. What was up, one afternoon last week, was a single sheet of white paper, thumbtacked to The New York Times's third-floor notice board and signed by Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, announcing a shake-up among top Times editors. Highlights of the memo: - "James Reston, Executive Editor, has been elected a Vice President with primary responsibility in the areas of news coverage. He will return to Washington and will continue his three-times-a-week column from there." - "Clifton Daniel, Managing Editor, will become Associate Editor...