Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airport just north of Basel, Switzerland, the plane made the first of two planned low-altitude flybys for the crowd of 15,000 attending the air show at the tiny Habsheim, France, airstrip 15 miles away. The announcer touted the new jet ("It's so quiet you can barely hear its engines") as it went by at about 135 m.p.h...
...case's national financial implications, it also featured an unusual twist, brought about by the cast of Harvard players involved: Harvard Corporation member Colman M. Mockler, Jr. '52, the chief executive officer of Gillette Co., and Harvard Overseer Rya M. Zobel '53, the federal judge originally slated to hear the case...
...when Coles sticks to himself, struggles on his own to come to terms with a particular novel, or even a particular conversation with someone, he is a joy to encounter. Despite the up-front Chrisitianity of this volume, one begins to hear a more ecumenical spiritualism at the heart of his writing, as he consistently makes the argument that in this world we have too often closed our eyes to or explained away the mysteries of the next...
...only four of the past 20 years, the yearning is unmistakable. "Like others, I am getting a continuous supply of letters, telegrams, calls, reports and recommendations," says Harvard Professor Robert Reich, who is often cited as a key economic adviser to Dukakis. He adds with a roguish twinkle, "I hear from a remarkably large and varied number of people...
...resent the intrusion on their old turf," suggests Alan Baker, a 25-year member of the New York Athletic Club. But even some older men, mindful of their career-conscious daughters, have been having second thoughts. Says Cosmos Club President Tedson Meyers: "If you listen closely, you could hear them saying in the silences, 'I wonder if I'm doing the right thing...