Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that McGuane is complaining. A fit 50, he has weathered the storms of literary celebrity, Hollywood, alcoholism, two failed marriages and at least one critical scalping, only to retain his stature as one of the most original American writers on either side of the Mississippi. This fall his seventh novel, Keep the Change, was published, ending a four-year hiatus from long fiction. The New York Times proclaimed it the "best book he has written to date." Almost as sweet is the news that Keep the Change is already the best- selling book of his career. No wonder that McGuane...
According to the data, 67 percent of the students in one upperclass house are athletes, while in another, 48 percent of the residents graduated from private secondary schools. This isn't to say that all athletes fit one particular stereotype. It merely confirms the obvious: that they share a strong and exclusive commonality...
...Swiss military has not engaged foreign troops since 1815, when Napoleon's army withdrew after a 17-year occupation. As a result of Switzerland's extraordinary military preparedness, no aggressor since then has seen fit to challenge its control of the mountain passes. Last week, however, the Swiss army suffered a rare setback -- not in battle, but at the polls...
Discontent over Harvard's anemic social life, both campus-wide and within the houses, has inspired many students to seek alternatives. Some men join one of the nine all-male final clubs. But for most students--all women and those men who do not fit in these sexist and elitist settings--the final club option is foreclosed...
Time Warner had decided that the textbook division failed to fit well with its other publishing and entertainment businesses. At the same time, the sale will help reduce the $12 billion in debt that the company will assume when its merger is completed, sometime around year...