Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think his greatest accomplishment is puttingthe place back together," says a former BusinessSchool administrator who requested anonymity."When he took over, the faculty was somewhatadrift--they felt that their mission wasuncertain, that they were the odd duck out. Johnreminded the faculty what was good about...
...live band onstage -- jacked in from a studio in Prague -- isn't very good, so I duck into the back room where there are virtual racks full of tapes you can sample, listening to a few seconds from each song. If you like it, you can download the whole album, with optional interactive liner notes, videos and sheet music...
...persevere after earlier defeats, Dole is the front runner in every poll. There are rumblings of concern about his age (71), which may explain why he has floated the idea of pledging to serve only one term. But it's unlikely he would want to render himself a lame duck before he's inaugurated. Dan Quayle makes the top tier because of his prior service and ties to the religious right. However, the real tension so far, and probably the real contest as the battle progresses, is between Dole and Gramm...
...Everyman. Or Everyboy. Or Everygirl. Whatever. The women are learning how to demonstrate it, fooling around with a prototype of a boxing video game. ("Face down in the goggles, please. That's it. Click here to throw a right, there to throw a left, and don't forget to duck!") But hurry. It's 7:30 a.m., and the wide glass doors are about to swing open on the Winter Consumer Electronics Show, the equivalent of opening night for the $56 billion home-electronics industry...
...actual and virtual Presidents prepared for the week with different evocations of political power. Clinton spent the first few days in Arkansas on vacation. He did not seem like a man with many worries as he went duck hunting with four old friends in the east Arkansas lowlands. At a local restaurant he chatted up patrons and posed for pictures. Still, he was winsome and a little wistful, enthusiastic about his home state, reluctant about returning to Washington. Referring to birds he had seen earlier, sitting by the hundreds in fields along the road, he said, "I identify with those...