Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With these tectonic shifts, the business has abandoned its pretenses of collegiality and moved closer in structure and style to Hollywood, where an oligarchy of half a dozen companies hustles for hits. Says Michael Korda, editor in chief of Simon & Schuster and a best-selling novelist himself, on the subject of big advances: "It's like stars in the movie business. If you want Cher for your movie, by God, you've got to pay Cher...
...most important influences I had here, I cannot credit Harvard with providing them. The best way I can describe my relationship with the governing forces of this University is to call it adversarial. The experiences I gained the most from, and often those which brought my friends and me closer, were fighting things we felt were wrong about the way the University was run, from the administration's policy towards South Africa to its handling of student protests...
Most cold fusion experiments around the world also yielded negative results, and the repeated reports of failure fueled speculation that Pons and Fleischmann's discovery was closer to science fiction than science...
...fully expect we will break the [1986] record by graduation," Orchard said yesterday. "Class spirit really starts to build as graduation gets closer. Fundraising goes though the roof...
Plans to convert Memorial Hall into a student center and dining hall came one step closer to reality recently when the architectural firm overseeing the proposed project determined that it was "feasible...