Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...January of this year when the Corporation reintroduced the old proposal to a new and generally inexperienced ACSR. A Corporation official began the January meeting with a homily on the evils of apartheid and the great weight he placed on ethical criteria in investment policy. Then, almost as a casual afterthought, he asked the ACSR to rectify a "minor flaw" in the University's current bank policy which would force it to divest from banks trying to make "good loans" to the South African government. He gave as an example the Citibank loan which he claimed South African Blacks actually...
...ultra he was. Logging training runs of 150 miles a week, Shapiro often did 40-mile workouts and entered "ultramarathons" of distances up to 100 miles. This guy, the casual observer might note, was crazy...
Secret taping by Presidents has been generally condemned, but there may be another message in those reels and discs. There is no such thing as a casual conversation with a President, either by friend or foe. Every presidential word is a potential time bomb for good or bad, when it is carried out of the Oval Office to be used. Presidents know that. And visitors understand that what they say to a President can be just as explosive. It will always be so, and should be, as long as the office has the power it does...
Last night's casual destruction of Bowdoin was certainly one of the least nerve-wracking of the Crimson's recent triumphs. The ice almost seemed tilted toward the bears' goal in the early going, but some nifty saves by netminder Susan Leonard kept the Crimson off the board for almost half a period...
Fabric purists, and women whose jobs permit a casual approach, can do a little vamping and pull on a pair of high-fashion Norma Kamali sweat pants; or buy something oversized from the designer boutique section; or dip into the proud father's closet and come up with some huge smothering sweater that, worn with pants and leg warmers, makes any mother-to-be look like an off-center ballerina on her way home from class...