Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concerned that we not be faddish about our faculty appointments," he says. "With the new flexibility, we worry that there will be great pressure on the dean to increase faculty in those departments that are `hot...
...mighty hot in the basement space known as the Quincy House Cage. This seems appropriate for what Knock Knock's producers describe as a "manic farce about Joan of Arc and two other guys." Playwright Jules Feiffer is best known for his political cartoons, but he has written the screenplays to such manic farces as Robert Altman's Popeye...
...campaign for the Presidency, Bush relied heavily on "hot button" issues--the pledge of allegiance and prison furloughs--that carry great emotional appeal, but bear little relevance to Presidential leadership. He avoided pushing specific policy proposals, save for a few trivial programs such as his college savings plan...
...megastakes battle has taken the starch out of corporate chiefs everywhere. After all, if RJR Nabisco, the 19th largest U.S. corporation (1987 revenues: $16 billion), can be taken over by the new breed of dealmakers, is any company safe? Is Du Pont doable? Can General Electric be hot-wired? Worse, must every chief executive view a healthy balance sheet as his worst enemy, a potentially rich source of leverage for a pushy buyer? Concludes James Scott, professor of finance at Columbia Business School: "There is no magic number anymore. There is no safety in size...
...three years the hulking eight-story structure in Moscow has stood empty, the ultimate example of a property grown too hot to handle. Work on the new U.S. embassy was halted when American inspectors discovered it was riddled with supersophisticated Soviet eavesdropping devices, implanted during construction. Last week, following lengthy studies by private engineering firms, Ronald Reagan recommended that the $22 million structure be razed. Said the President: "We have to do it. We have no choice...