Word: galling
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...Falk Foundation announced that it would no longer award the Eppinger Prize. "We founded the prize to encourage research, not to elicit political controversy," declared Dr. Herbert Falk, 60, head of the foundation and president of Dr. Falk GmbH, a firm specializing in drugs to treat disorders of the gall bladder and liver. "I will do anything to counter the impression that I am promoting a Nazi war criminal." Falk's firm decided to create a hepatology prize in the late '60s. Says Falk: "I asked professors I knew whom we should name it after...
...council of Extension School students last nigh kicked off is petition campaign aimed at reopening the Lehman Gall lounge, which has been closed to E-School students in the evenings since September...
...them is a singleminded devotion to a cause. The conflicts between their beliefs form the book's underlying message. The most important of these is the Counselor himself, a magical figure who has a strange power over men that only he can understand. Then there is Gallileo Gall, a proto Marxist Scot shipwrecked in Brazil, who sees Canudos as the revolutionary commune he left in Paris in 1871. On the other side is Morcira-Cesar, the military leader who vows to eliminate the religious revolt or die trying...
Mergermaking draws the top performers in investment banking: hugely competitive individuals who are blessed with hard-learned savvy. Wall Street smarts and plenty of gall. Says Joseph Flom, a top corporate lawyer who specializes in takeover cases: "You have to have nerve. You've got to be able to make tough calls on the spur of the moment with split-second timing. You've got to have the right stuff...
...royalty of the host countries had opened the ceremonies at the nine previous modern Olympics, but President Herbert Hoover, confronted with the worst domestic crisis since the Civil War, decided to stay in Washington. "It's a crazy thing," he reportedly told his intimates. "And it takes some gall to expect me to be part of it." He sent instead his Vice President, Charles Curtis...