Word: georgetown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Still, McFarlane occasionally gave the impression that he regretted having resigned in December 1985, in the midst of a turf battle with White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, to become a counselor at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. He missed the excitement of Government service, for all its headaches, and Iranscam probably extinguished his prospects of becoming a policymaker again. Instead of being regarded as a wise elder statesman as he had hoped, McFarlane found himself viewed as the official who had first favorably presented a plan to sell arms to Iran, and thus...
...Casey's aggressive style and zeal for clandestine operations could prove to be the undoing of everything he achieved if the agency is once more battered by multiple investigations. As the CIA's ailing chief struggles to recover his health at Georgetown University Hospital, colleagues hope his well-groomed successor can protect and consolidate his legacy...
Erdman, who has a degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Basel, did what many other gifted men have done when confronted with enforced leisure. He wrote a novel. The Billion Dollar Sure Thing (1973) involved the President of the U.S. and his Secretary of the Treasury in a frantic effort to save the international monetary system. It was short on narrative technique but long on expertise. There was no panting sex, and the sharks wore three-piece suits. Yet Erdman, like Bernie Cornfeld, another tarnished golden...
...office is also located in Langdell Hall, behind several stacks of law books on the third floor. He claims that his office, adorned with paintings of clipper ships in Boston Harbor and Georgetown, is "the biggest, except for the dean...
...serious algae problem. Notre Dame's famous jocks are ossified as the Fighting Irish, though Hibernian-American athletes are about as rare in South Bend as they are on the Boston Celtics. Nothing exposed the nickname crisis more starkly than the 1982 NCAA basketball championship game played between the Georgetown Hoyas and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Even if you know what a hoya or a tarheel is, the only sensible strategy is to forget it. (For those overwhelmed by a need to know, hoya is short for Hoya saxa!, a garbled Greek and Latin cheer meaning "What rocks...