Word: georgetown
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Pamela Harriman, grand dame widow of Averell and a valued Democratic fund raiser, backed Senator Albert Gore in the primaries. Yet she managed to be on the dais with Dukakis, smiling silkily, as he delivered his first major foreign policy speech this month at the Atlantic Council. Georgetown denizens began whispering that she hopes to become the next Ambassador to the United Nations. At the same conference, Andrew Pierre, a Paris-based defense expert, was the first to ask Dukakis a question. "Andrew shot up out of his seat like a Pershing II missile," a colleague knowingly observed. In social...
Such dramatic revisions in the GNP, retail sales figures and other important statistics occur with maddening regularity. "The numbers are not bad," says Sidney Jones, professor of public policy at Georgetown University. "They are just premature." But the Government is under pressure from anxious investors and executives to report economic data as soon as possible. Observes Robert Ortner, the Commerce Department's Under Secretary for Economic Affairs: "If you want something quickly, you give up something." In this case, accuracy...
...order to pursue her diplomatic career, nextyear she will go to Georgetown University for afour-year law and foreign service program. "I hopethat will better qualify me as a diplomat on theinternational scene," she says. Khalil says shereceived one of her first lessons in how delicateMiddle-Eastern issues can be after writing acontroversial Government honors thesis, entitled"The Absence of Arab Retaliation During the 1982Israeli Invasion of Lebanon...
Princeton won the varsity light-weight eights race. Georgetown captured the varsity heavyweight fours title, and Ohio State outstroked the competition in the lightweight fours before darkness ended the day's racing...
...enormity of this victory is rivaled only by Villanova's upset of Georgetown [in the 1985 NCAA basketball finals]," Harvard Co-Captain Arkie Engle said...