Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard senior lecturer who combines a broad knowledge of comparative religion with expertise in the area of medieval Islam will cop a lifetime post in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department, sources said yesterday...
...face, broad and fleshy, with dark-ringed eyes and a gap-toothed smile; the body, stocky and powerful, slightly uncomfortable in the boxy blue suits; and the hands, strong and blunt like small shovels--all combine to give him the look of one of the proud immigrants who toiled in the caissons deep below the East River to build the Brooklyn Bridge. A laborer, a man capable of bearing heavy weights, a man of explosive passions and simple pleasures. Someone strong. Someone you do not want to tangle with...
...final weeks." All told, the G.O.P. hopefuls are expected to spend some $9 million. So far the champion cash collector and the candidate with the most media sizzle is Zschau, 46, a former Stanford business professor and successful electronics entrepreneur (founder of System Industries, Inc.) who has earned broad respect after only two terms in Congress. At fund raisers across California, high-tech execs like Hewlett- Packard Co-Founder David Packard and other businessmen such as Reagan "Kitchen Cabinet" Member Armand Deutsch hail Zschau as "one of us" and provide a copious flow of campaign cash, expected...
...told me, 'Here's one I'm going to save for you. We might have some fun with him.' " The British beer guzzler Bold Arrangement took a lovely second and hurried away with a foaming head to the 205-year-old "real Derby" at Epsom Downs next month. Broad Brush, an affable bay who likes to be taken on joyrides in his trainer's van, came third. All around, it was a happy day for practically everyone but the 1-2 favorites Snow Chief and Badger Land, who finished eleventh and fifth. By the Dosage Index, a perplexing pedigree calibrator...
...Ph.D. 's in business say that one of thebenefits of their Ph.D. background over the MBA isthat they can look at the broad picture--thesocial, political and economic factors involved ina decision that truly draw on their Ph.D.backgrounds," Leape says...