Word: calls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although football Coach Joe Restic never returned a single phone call to me during the fall season, and his secretary refused a request to set up an appointment for me to speak with him, Restic failed to return the calls of any of The Crimson's three football writers. So it wasn't just...
Finally, the bill would require approval from the owners of at least 40 percent of a company's stock to call a special meeting of the company's shabeholders. Now, approval from just 10 percent is needed--a right that was meant to ensure accountability but "has been abused lately" by some hostile raiders, said Stephen B. Kay, a partner in the brokerage firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. who served on the Dukakis commission...
Beyond that, Theroux's randy adventurer has a convincing, if not necessarily reassuring, reality of his own. Parent is a droll reminder that nature adores deception. His admission that "in order to be strong I needed to have secrets" sounds no more or no less deceitful than the call of any unhousebroken creature who relies on stealth to catch a meal, a mate or juicy material for a novel...
...loan bank for ten years. Although both matters were on public record and on the surface did not seem to represent a conflict of interest, the facts beneath the surface suggested otherwise. It turns out that city deposits in the Chinatown bank were doubled after Bradley made a phone call to the Los Angeles treasurer. The savings and loan bank, meanwhile, was involved in a multimillion-dollar tax dispute with the city, and had been awarded several zoning changes. Following those disclosures, Bradley repaid his $18,000 fee to the Chinatown bank and quit his job as director...
...brain surgeons. We have to help them become brain surgeons. That's my job. I want to take them all in my arms and say, "Your baby is beautiful and so are you and, honey, you can do it. And when you want to be a brain surgeon, call me -- I will take care of your baby." That's the attitude you have to have about human life. But we don't want...