Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pause to listen to petitioners, some hardly more than beggars. Once, recalls an aide, his left foot was in the car, his right foot still on the ground, when a simple Bedouin began running toward him shouting, "Ya, Faisal!" (the Arab equivalent of "Hey"). Bodyguards started to chase the man, but the King stopped them. "Don't drive him away," said Faisal. "Perhaps he has something important to tell me." They spoke for a few minutes and the Bedouin went away smiling...
...have my preliminary reactions regarding the need for more work with proctors, tutors and students. As suggested, I'll meet with Dan [Steiner '54, general counsel to the University] and Chase [Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development] on this before getting back to you. (If you teach, I'll promise not to audit...
...That we keep the Harvard College thing in mind, and use Chase and Dan when it is a propos...
...happened? For one thing, there was a lot of "water" in the capital-goods backlog-excess orders spread among several suppliers by companies merely waiting to see who would deliver first. Then came the coal strike and the disastrous auto sales figures from Detroit; says Michael Evans, president of Chase Econometrics Associates, a Manhattan forecasting firm: "All the water got squeezed out of the order numbers. Then everyone panicked and cut some more." Prospects for the year ahead are for more cutting. Depending on which forecast is used, real business spending is expected to drift down...
...reader who is soon lost in comic-strip chronicles marked by great wit, suspense and true humor rising both from character and from a remarkably sophisticated view of the world. These four books variously send Tintin, Haddock, Snowy and two idiot detectives in black bowlers into the desert to chase opium smugglers, into central Europe to try to keep King Ottokar from losing the throne of Syldavia, back into history to recall the voyages of Haddock's pirate ancestor Red Rackham on the ship Unicorn, and, finally, down to the bottom of the Caribbean in a sharklike submarine after...