Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away. Students last week celebrated 50 years of Israel in front of the Science Center, while posters entitled "Palestine 50" were put up around the Yard to reflect the Palestinian perspective. The enthusiasm of celebration and the zeal of protest make the issue more real in our minds and call to our attention the questions being raised...
...most respected cadets in the corps," was the assessment of West Point's 1967 yearbook, The Howitzer. He earned a Purple Heart and a Silver Star in Vietnam, and was regarded as a good and affable officer. An avid hunter, Hale insisted that his troops--and their spouses--call him Dave, even when he was wearing his uniform with the pair of stars on each shoulder...
American officials frown when outsiders call the battle over the Caspian another "Great Game," the term Rudyard Kipling used for the 19th century struggle for influence and control between the British and Russian empires. But another Great Game is what it is. Washington wants Caspian oil to flow through many pipelines so that no single country can bottle it up, and is adamantly against having a new pipeline pass through Iran. It is fine if some of the lines run through Russia, as they already do, but Russia should not be able to turn a valve and shut...
Specifically, the U.S. wants the big new carrier, the one the oilmen call the main export pipeline, to run westward from the Caspian to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, on the Mediterranean, because Turkey is a NATO ally. The U.S. does not entirely trust Russia, which resents the arrival of foreign influence in what were Soviet republics. To Washington, the Islamist regime in Iran looks even less friendly. "The last thing we need," says a White House aide, "is to rely on the Persian Gulf as the main access for more...
When it came time for my actual interviews, the pesky matter of my absolute ignorance in the field of marketing could not be disguised. But I felt that I fared well, and the last fellow I met with promised to call me--you guessed it--"at the beginning of next week." Well, I waited anxiously by the phone and--you guessed it again--never heard from him. A bigger man might have cut his losses and moved on. I am not that man. I made it my mission in life to force a verbal rejection from that recruiter. I called...