Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jordan. He obviously wanted to avoid a meeting with Begin that ended in open disagreement. Besides, recalling Carter's earlier disastrous encounter with Rabin, one official explained, "Carter must have realized that his tough attitude toward Rabin did not pay off. Instead of movement, he got Israel to dig in its heels. Carter must have seen that to get the best results, he must play the pussycat-and he was the pussycat...
...member top-management team at Con Ed, bringing in many new executives from the outside. He ordered a variety of improvements to reduce chances of future system-wide blackouts, and encouraged natural-gas conservation. To better the company's testy relations with its customers, he scrapped the gratuitous DIG WE MUST signs that work crews used to place at their street excavations, emphasized pollution-control efforts and set up special offices to handle complaints...
...them was John P. Holmes Jr.. president of the National Corporate Fund for Dance. Says Holmes: "The idea of disbanding one of the foremost modern-dance companies was absolutely ludicrous. It could not happen." It did not happen because the National Corporate Fund-created in 1972 to dig money out of the corporate world for U.S. dance companies-went beyond the realm of fund raising. Holmes became the Taylor Company's president and began cutting costs where he could, notably by limiting the company's number of performances in Manhattan, where operating costs are very heavy. That...
...League plus Army and Navy) had finished or played most of their respective 14-game seasons. To make post-season playoffs Harvard had to finish either first or second in the league, which roughly meant winning ten or 11 of its league games. Two losses over the weekend would dig an almost inescapable hole for Harvard. As Park pointed out, "The kids at this juncture saw in their eyes what was ahead of them...
...thousand schemes, James Earl Ray, has tirelessly tried to scratch, claw and dig his way out of jail so many times that fellow inmates nicknamed him "the Mole." He has made eight known escape attempts-and bungled most of them. His reported escapades, up until last week's getaway...