Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the faculty decides which books undergraduates will read. "When we read French literature, it's mainly Racine, Moliere and Baudelaire. We make a judgement that those three are more worth reading than other authors. I will just be dogmatic about that," Slakey says...
...Gordon understands many languages. Fluent in Spanish and proficient in French, she has also studied Russian, Gaelic, Quechua (the second language of Peru), and she is currently learning Portuguese...
What can possibly be said? It's a week later, and I'm still numb. To hell with the French Revolution; to hell with Dickens. This, not that, was the very best, and then the absolute worst, of times...
Some thrift executives used financial deregulation as an opportunity to become big shots. In the early 1980s, Centennial Savings & Loan of Guerneville, Calif., bought a Cessna company plane, imported a French chef for its executives and invested in projects as diverse as a mushroom farm and a highway construction company. The S and L failed in 1985, and the bank board had to take it over and replace almost all the high-ranking managers. Says Jack Steele, dean of the University of Southern California School of Business Administration and a member of the new board of directors: "The first thing...
...first George Washington and that singular French genius Pierre l'Enfant planned a "President's palace" five times larger than the present structure. But many Americans were opposed to such monarchical pretensions, so Washington acquiesced. When workmen came to him in 1792 with L'Enfant's grand design for a capital city in which the President's house was to be at the center, Washington paced the ground and set the stakes marking the north wall of the more modest residence designed by James Hoban, which Theodore Roosevelt would dub the "White House...