Word: fining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speak directly to the American people by holding his first news conference since the Tehran embassy was seized. Because the 30-min. appearance before reporters and TV cameras in the East Room was a calculated risk, he prepared himself with special care. He spent a whole afternoon reviewing the fine points of U.S. policy on Iran with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Secretary of State Vance and fielding practice questions?about 25 in all ? thrown at him by aides. Former Imagemaker Jerry Rafshoon rehearsed Carter on the brief speech that would open the news conference...
...Offensively we were fine, but I think we need to tighten up the defense a little," Harvard Coach Kevin Hampe said...
Oleg Grabar, professor of Fine Arts and Faculty Council member, said yesterday Rosovsky's new approach may "force departments to think more about the availability of women" when they select the fields in which they plan to grant tenure posts...
Grabar said the Fine Arts Department has not recruited women and minorities vigorously in the past...
Other performers in the show, too, seem like those good, dependable singers who know their art but whose voices go a little flat on the high notes. Alison Carey's Gwen--the youngest Cavendish, who's torn between love and the stage--gives a fine performance except when called upon, in the ineptly-written love scenes or her own renunciation of a stage career, to display excesses of emotion. Rounding out the clan, Michael Cantor's Anthony--the rake of the family, who sold out to Hollywood--hams his way through his part with plenty of panache but without some...