Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George W. Siguler, associate treasurer of the University, said this weekend that the decisions "remove a cloud" over the companies and are good for the businesses and stockholders, but Harvard officials said the University will examine the results of the AT&T settlement before deciding what to do with the University's 386,550 shares...
...self-made men, boosters, gadgeteers, jacks of all trades and "shape shifters" share a love of the game that often exceeds their lust for profits. Even such desperate survivors as the King and the Duke in Huckleberry Finn threw themselves wholeheartedly into their roles. Their shenanigans tended to cloud the fact that Huck relished his own duplicities, and nearly everyone in the book was tricking someone else...
William Spolar St. Cloud, Minn...
...necessary. With precisely that goal in mind, a succession of American Administrations, going back to the '50s, has asserted that in extremis, the U.S. would be prepared to fight a nuclear war with the Soviet Union; moreover, the U.S. has reserved the right to detonate the first mushroom cloud if that is what it takes to halt Soviet aggression...
...periodic eruptions of Secretary of State Alexander Haig against back-corridor White House grousing over his performance are, if nothing else, enervating and diverting. Budget Chief David Stockman's unusual excursion into journalistic confession raises a credibility cloud that may be no bigger than a man's hand but capable of yielding acid rain...