Word: ices
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hackeling nailed the ice-breaker with 30 seconds remaining in the first overtime period when sophomore Christin Biggs chipped a crossing pass from the right side over Yale goalkeeper Allison Murphy...
...Bush's negatives receded, he sought to raise those of Dukakis. After slipping up in the first debate, Bush smiled and said, "Wouldn't it be nice to be the Ice Man, so you never make a mistake?" His aides later christened the contest the Nice Man vs. the Ice Man. The idea was to portray Bush's occasional goofiness as engaging, and Dukakis' competence as soulless...
This week the Dukakis campaign unveils commercials that attempt to thaw out the Ice Man. The ads, says Dukakis media chief David D'Alessandro, "show who he really is." Dukakis talks directly to the camera. In one he recalls what it was like to be a young father. In another he sketches his hopes for the future. But do not expect Phil Donahue. Says D'Alessandro: "Dukakis has a limit as to how much he can do as far as changing his persona." Maybe all this touchy-feely stuff is not so important after all. Noted campaign manager Susan Estrich...
Initially, the interviewer may try to break the ice by talking about anything but the job--such as sports, the weather, or current events. One Harvard senior encountered an interviewer who spent an entire 30-minute interview talking about football. They had a great conversation--but the student didn't get a second interview...
Suburban Chicago's Oberweis Securities, a fast-growing small firm before the crash, abruptly halted its expansion plans this year. James Oberweis, the company chairman, decided to diversify by selling 50.1% of his brokerage to another firm and expanding his family's dairy company by buying a chain of ice-cream shops. Says Oberweis: "The ice-cream business is a lot better than the brokerage business these days...