Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ayatullah is crazy like a fox. It is we who are the lunatics supplying weapons to our enemies...
...most elusive of all. Probably the world's biggest independent dealer in crude oil, Rich, 49, leads an intensely private life, is rarely photographed and gives no interviews. His money, however, talks. He was the secret partner in the $722 million purchase of 20th Century-Fox in 1981. He is believed to be the "mystery buyer" who the same year tried to corner the global market for tin. The Belgian-born Rich, whose family fled to New York during World War II, found his calling 30 years ago as a metals trader after dropping out of New York University...
...staff began having second thoughts in the late 1970s about the earlier decision. By removing the networks as sources of financing for new TV shows, the commission in effect turned production almost totally over to the major studios like Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros, and Twentieth Century-Fox, and to the big independents like MTM, Lorimar and Spelling, who are able to afford the megabucks necessary to launch a new program. That, reasoned the staff in a 1980 report, simply concentrated the program supply power in fewer hands instead of dispersing...
...convention and tourism bureau: "The bottom line is people know they can come here and still make a buck." Sniffed Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko: "So, a buffalo chip is bigger than a diamond." But at least one Chicagoan has already adapted to reality. Three years ago Tricia Fox opened the Second City Day School. Now she has seven and calls them the Fox Day Schools. "I didn't want to change the name every time the city slipped," she says. "Besides, Third or Fourth City Day School just doesn't sound right...
...only seem that Fox decides things in a monarchical fashion--in actuality, he regularly consults with the numerous officials from the Houses and Yard whom you are most likely to deal with in your daily life as a student. Though some students with things were otherwise. Fox answers only to the Dean of the Faculty. Aside from becoming good huddles with Fox, however, your best bet as a student to influence decisions on the College level is through elected committee positions from the Undergraduate Council, the latest in a string of student governments at Harvard and one which...