Word: dale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course of the four roll calls last week, Helms never got more than 54 votes in favor of ending the debate. At one point, the fight turned bitter, when Democratic Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas rose to speak against cloture. While accusing Helms of forcing embarrassing votes on liberal Senators so he can then lambaste them in their home states, Bumpers mistakenly referred to him as "the Senator from South Carolina." Complained Helms: "Now he has moved me across the line." Shot back Bumpers: "I apologize" (pause) "to the other state...
College-admission officers everywhere still take SAT scores very seriously. However, research published in September by James Grouse, an education professor at the University of Delaware, and Dale Trusheim, acting director of admissions at Maryland's Washington College, found that high school grades are every bit as good an indicator of college success as the SAT. Says Grouse: "In terms of predicting who will graduate from college, the SAT adds nothing over high school grades alone." Grouse and Jencks, in a previous study, concluded that the SAT, as a so-called aptitude test, encourages students to believe they...
After graduation from Harvard, Cullinane was employed as a computer specialist with Dale Jorgenson Associates...
...weekly sister publication originated the technique, now widely imitated by general-interest dailies, of scrutinizing the box-office record of a film in its all-important opening days in order to forecast its ultimate success. But the price of that insider knowledge can be excessive coziness. Entertainment Reporter Dale Pollock of the Los Angeles Times says he was sternly reprimanded in a former job at Variety for picking up the tab for lunch with industry executives. He explains: "The paper said that being taken to lunch was part of my salary...
that tan!" "Look at that tone!" Fonda's critics took a different view. "She has a body like wood," one man said. "You don't want to stroke her, you want to sand her down." Dale Pollock, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, complained, "That scene is supposed to be the climax of the film. Instead, it's a commercial for Jane Fonda's Workout Book." If so, the commercial did its job. Work-out (Simon & Schuster, $18.95), published the month On Golden Pond was released, has had 31 weeks on the New York Times...