Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dole knew last Wednesday morning at about 9 o'clock, six hours before Powell's official announcement. The Senate majority leader was flying to New Hampshire aboard a chartered Gulfstream II to receive the endorsement of New Hampshire Governor Steve Merrill, a coup of major proportions. Merrill's conservative credentials are unquestioned; his support can help stem the far right's cry that Dole is too moderate. "That right?" said Dole, smiling thinly, when the news reached him at 35,000 ft. And then he fixed his gaze at a distant point outside the window. Lost in thought...
Arafat: Oh, I can't give you his name. But I have No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5. I am not here with a tank and a coup d'etat. I have been elected in the Palestine National Council. [If something happens], they will call an urgent meeting of the P.N.C. and elect another...
Whatever the cause, Harvard must learn from this coup de force and improve its conditioning and offensive production in a half-court set, in order to avoid any deja vu in the future...
...private-placement memo to Arab clients obtained by TIME contains an extremely bullish forecast on the first page: Saks was expected to produce an investment return of 25.9% a year, and was likely to be sold within four years. One reason Investcorp failed to repeat its Tiffany coup with Saks is that the $1.6 billion purchase price was $200 million to $300 million too high, according to several sources, including a former Investcorp executive with direct knowledge of the deal. "Kirdar wanted it badly," recalls this source, "and he said, 'Let's just do a bid that'll knock everybody...
...trying to straighten out the elderly woman's finances. In the second act, B and C become earlier incarnations of A, and the three--now all one woman, at different stages of her life--open up to each other, and to the audience. It is a brilliant coup de theatre, which first presents A from the outside and then allows us to view her from the inside...