Word: fellows
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When he returned to Libya, Gaddafi began to organize his fellow officers into secret cells to plan a way to overthrow the regime of the aged King Idris, whom he regarded as a corrupt and effete tool of Western oil companies. In 1969 Gaddafi led an efficient, bloodless coup, an effortless overthrow that seemed to have the tacit support...
...proposals offered much immediate solace to frustrated American exporters as they contemplated a Japanese trade surplus with the U.S. that totaled $50 billion last year. Washington had no official reaction to the Japanese plan prior to the Reagan-Nakasone meeting. Nonetheless, I.M. Destler, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for International Economics, declared that "these are steps in the right direction, but the Japanese have a substantial way to go." Nakasone acknowledged that changes in Japanese spending habits would not come easily. Said he: "This question of restructuring is as difficult as a junior high school student trying...
...Regan (for "drug-money laundering" while head of Merrill Lynch), former Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy (for financing the Weatherman radicals in the late 1960s), and even one Agnes Harrison, 60, a former president of the Leesburg, Va., garden club (for belonging to a "highly organized nest" of Communist fellow travelers...
...very poor judgment in this matter, and I will be urging voters in my class, other alumni, and other members of the Harvard community to register their discontent in a variety of ways. At the very least, you owe us all a public explanation Whitney Davis '80 Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows...
...grind of libraries is very real," says Tom Fitzsimmons, whose character Ford is Hart's waspy fellow classmate. The Yale graduate said he had no qualms about playing a Harvard student, adding that his Ivy League experience helped him give Ford that Northeastern touch. "I went to school with guys [like the character] I played," says Fitzsimmons...