Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...board held closed-door sessions in Radcliffe's Cronkhite Graduate Center from 1 p.m. into the evening. Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson also met with a smaller group in Fay House, Radcliffe's administrative headquarters, before the general board meeting...
...minutes in Daschle's conference room. Along the way, they held off the more zealous members of their parties--the ones who wanted to torch the negotiations and break open the gun closets. Late Thursday, Lott called Daschle's cell phone in the middle of a closed-door Democratic caucus to tell him there would be no deal. The rules for going forward would be Republican rules, including one Democrats had strongly resisted, which left open the possibility that videotaped testimony might be released to the public. Despite the impasse, said Lott, he would honor concessions he'd made...
Family tensions rose further over Hussein's insistence that one of his sons be designated to succeed Hassan. He was furious when Hassan said the matter should wait until he became King, leaving the door open to name his son Rashid. Just before Hussein was found to have cancer again last year, the King signaled that he favored Hamzah, 18, the eldest son of Queen Noor, to become second in line...
Ayana E. Johnson '02, who lives next door to Ali and was one of her "shout-outs," said she was excited to see her close friend perform...
Show me the money. For years writers have been pounding at the door of movie studios to get what top actors, directors and producers have long been able to command: a cut of the profits. Thursday, a small group of elite screenwriters finally walked away from Columbia Pictures with exactly such a deal, one that TIME senior entertainment reporter William Tynan says it's largely symbolic. "It acknowledges the significant role they play in the success of a movie and it garners a little more respect for them." But, he notes, it's unclear what the arrangement will accomplish...