Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team that has different goals than we do," Harvard Co-Captain Keith Kaplan said. "Army made their season by winning in a meet that was less important to us than others down the road, like Princeton and Easterns. It's frustrating to lose like that, but we have to keep the goals of the season in mind. There are a full two-and-one-half months until Easterns and we expect to win there...
...longer the ultimate measures of value. The KKR team surpassed Johnson's group in demonstrating to RJR's board that it intended to give a fair shake to stockholders and employees, that it had the financial experience to raise the huge sum involved and that it would try to keep most of the company in one piece. After being named the winner, KKR partner Henry Kravis, 44, declared, "We want everything to settle down and everyone to get back to work." He added, "Oreos will still be in children's lunch boxes...
With the 1979 publication of Testimony, the composer's memoirs secretly narrated to his friend, editor Solomon Volkov, a different picture emerged. This Shostakovich was a pragmatist, who learned to keep his head down after he was denounced in Pravda and saw his friends and colleagues persecuted and purged by Stalin during the Great Terror. This Shostakovich was a survivor, who saved his innermost feelings for his work. "Words are not my genre," he once said to Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose poem Babi Yar he set in the brutal Symphony No. 13. "I never lie in music...
Fire Came to the Earth People (St. Martin's Press; $9.95) speaks of another kind of legend. The moon goddess Mawu, say the West Africans, wanted to keep fire for herself. The lion, panther, elephant and antelope vainly tried to persuade her to part with the secret. Then the chameleon had an idea. Straw was gathered and given to the tortoise. He sneaked it up to the sacred flame. The glowing embers were gathered under his shell and valorously brought home, safe forever from the jealousy of Mawu. The secret of Susan L. Roth's retelling lies in the strong...
...Bell's pain could become the consumer's gain, since the improvements may allow the company to keep lowering its toll charges. AT&T still commands 70% of the $50 billion long-distance market, but has grown increasingly price conscious in its rivalry with MCI and Sprint. Even so, the lateness of the move has shaken some investors' confidence in Ma Bell. Says James Meyer, a telecommunications analyst with the Philadelphia investment firm Janney Montgomery Scott: "My question is, Is this it? Or will we have to go through this again...