Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purporting to conduct a professional writers' workshop, Buckley notes that the lockers contained a variety of entertainments and diversions. Among them: a cassette library of movies, including The Wackiest Ship in the Army and The Caine Mutiny, tapes of David Niven reading his memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon; Bring On the Empty Horses), and a model of the Titanic that for some unexplained reason was glued together on deck during a heavy rainstorm. Such behavior might be attributed to the decision to pack 50 cases of beer and 32 cases of wine into the hull of the chartered...
...rights leader, formulated a set of antiapartheid principles that came to be adopted by a majority of U.S. companies operating in that troubled land. Last week Sullivan called a press conference in Washington to announce a dramatic change in strategy. Because the so-called Sullivan Principles had failed to bring an end to apartheid, he declared, he had concluded that all American firms should leave South Africa and that the Reagan Administration should break its remaining trade and diplomatic ties with that country...
...have no reason to exist unless you believe you can make your life a turning point. A turning point for everybody -- for humankind." The nephew feels his uncle has single-mindedly pursued such a path and might be an appropriate guide: "I thought, Would it be possible to bring to the human world what Uncle brought to plant life?" Unfortunately, this "crucial project" is interrupted by a bit of mundane melodrama. After 15 years as a widower, Benn marries the young, beautiful Matilda Layamon, only child of a wealthy, well-connected physician...
...Jack Barnaby was the best teacher I had at Harvard," Brooks said. "He really knew his students. He knew how to bring out the potential in all of his players...
...Business School has already decided to spend part of the money on a University-wide program to bring four ethics fellows from different disciplines to research and speak on ethical issues. One of the four fellows for next year, Massie said the Business School would take its time spending the $30 million. "They're building for the long run. They're not interested in making a big splash," He said...