Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collecting ideas, the Secretary sought advice inside and outside the Government, sometimes at meetings that resembled bull sessions. At one Saturday steak-and-eggs breakfast at the State Department last month, Shultz, professonally dressed in a tweed jacket and Argyle sweater, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and other top officials heard from Brian Jenkins of the California-based Rand Corp., who is an authority on worldwide terrorism. Jenkins stressed that officials must face the essential question: Are you prepared to use force...
...more in the sixth. After freshman catcher Gia Barresi lined out, third sacker Lisa Rowning singled and Trisha Brown doubled. With the table set, Ann Wilson, the Crimson's leading hitter last season, singled to score Rowning and when center fielder Karen Sullivan failed to field the bull cleanly, Brown crossed the plate to tie the game at three...
...with the customer) and the hallowed "closing" of the deal. This month the agency is holding a contest among its four salesmen: Roma (Joe Mantegna), the slick master of sympathetic patter; Aaronow (Mike Nussbaum), an aging nebbish trudging on the treadmill of anxiety; Moss (James Tolkan), bullet-headed and bull-tempered; and Levene (Robert Prosky), a salesman on a long losing streak, who can beam like a bishop at good news and just as quickly turn to wheedling for his job. Running herd on these macho individualists is the consummate organization man, Williamson (J.T. Walsh). What is this...
...killing started, as an amusing anachronism. At the State Department, in the early hours of the crisis, most of the staff shared the amusement of the press and public over what was perceived as a Gilbert and Sullivan battle over a sheep pasture between a choleric old John Bull and a comic dictator in a gaudy uniform. Among the White House staff, there was little sense of urgency...
...University pulled about $300 million of the endowment out of stock investments in December, bringing down the ratio of stock investments to bond and cash investments to 50-50 from 80-20 after scoring $700 million in 1982's strong bull market...