Word: georgetown
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...dapper, polished Gray, 62, is the founder and president of Gray & Co., an 86-member lobbying and public relations firm located in a lavishly decorated former generating plant in Georgetown immodestly named the Power House. His office is decorated with photographs of him shaking hands with every President since Dwight Eisenhower. "With appreciation and warmest friendship," says a photo inscription from Ronald Reagan, whose Inauguration ceremonies Gray helped arrange. By day he likes to be seen with his pals in high places, including CIA Director William Casey, Senator Paul Laxalt and most of the Cabinet. By night, if his friends...
Besides the inaccurate characterization of all Asians as well-paid techicians, the piece also makes a number of unsupported--and unsupportable--conclusions about the "Asian character." Asians are described as possessing "placid temperaments," capable of only "narrow" thinking, tending to "stick together on campus." In general, a Georgetown professor concludes that Asians will "work you into the ground...
...promotional event. Georgetown University's campus radio station invited the college's best musician impersonators to compete against each other and win valuable prizes...
...Dead Chimes is a joke on the name of a traditional barber-shop quarter at Georgetown called the Chimes...
...college basketball teams are certain shades of gray, Georgetown at least seems as light as its pewter uniform. An academic coordinator, Mary Fenlon, holds the rank of assistant coach and sits on the bench looking like a cross schoolmarm. Though 7-ft. Center Patrick Ewing regularly says "we was" and "they was," he must be learning something. Senior Guard Fred Brown is asked if the championship makes him feel complete, and he replies thoughtfully, "No, I still have to get my degree." Without irony, Brown says he envisions a career in the FBI, the CIA or the Secret Service...