Word: deale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Athletic Department was looking to find someone who would know how to deal with lots of sports, someone who has proved he can deal with lots of sports," Cicero said. "[Veneziano's] good for Harvard because he did a lot of work with many sports at B.U. He hasn't concentrated on one or two sports, like so many other people have done...
...counterrevolutionaries. But those who have known Wuer for years say he never sought to overthrow the government and that he hoped one day to join the * Communist Party. During the protests, he told reporters his aim was to "form a nationwide citizens' organization, like the Polish Solidarity," able to deal "openly and directly" with the government. Though sometimes overconfident, even cocky, he had no history of troublemaking. "He's a good student, he's from a good family, he loves the people, and he loves the country," said a close friend. But like others in the protest movement, Wuer possessed...
...come-on is trivial over the long pull; it is designed to cloud your judgment. The true rate on this deal is the "nationally recognized interest index plus 1.5%" that Amex talks about. But a footnote reveals this to be an index of short-term, tax-free bonds, the lowest-yielding animals...
When Christopher Whittle unveiled his plans to bring TV to the nation's classrooms earlier this year, he served up the deal with the classic pitch: everybody would win. Underfunded schools would get tens of thousands of dollars' worth of video equipment free, students would get a news program to teach them that Chernobyl is not Cher's full name, advertisers would get a captive teenage audience, and Whittle would make a healthy profit. Despite loud criticism that the daily newscasts amounted to cynical commercialization of the classroom, Whittle announced last week that he was not only going ahead with...
Paramount's hostile takeover proposal imperils the Time-Warner deal and sets the stage for a free-for-all in which the ownership of all three communications giants could be up for grabs...