Word: leafed
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...more than a century, the name Wurlitzer has been a household synonym for high-quality musical instruments, from grand pianos to the imposing wood and gold-leaf scroll organs that boomed across sports stadiums and carnival midways. Although the 8,000-pipe "Mighty Wurlitzer" at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall is still in operation, the company that built it is struggling for its life, victimized by foreign competition, high interest rates and a weak economy. Together, these pressures have flattened sales of pianos and organs alike...
Even though he had a lock on Senate approval, Shultz took no chances. He let himself be grilled in rehearsal by what the State Department calls its "murder board," a cluster of top aides headed by Under Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger. He studied a thick pile of loose-leaf briefing binders from the department's regional experts. He wrote his own 13-page opening statement for the hearings. A former dean of the University of Chicago business school and still a tenured professor at Stanford University, Shultz was not satisfied with his statement until he had reworked it nearly...
Beginning this spring, the déclassé clan tried to turn over a new leaf; typically, it was gold. They became philanthropists, giving away as much as $1 million in a few months, apparently to buy good will. Turki gave $300,000 to the University of Miami School of Medicine. Mohammad, among his other donations, doled out $50,000 to Washington and $30,000 to Opa-Locka, Fla. (pop. 14,600). At least one offer was refused: when Tarek volunteered to pay for a new $161 million Miami stadium, city officials said it was an attempt to undermine local...
James admits to no special acuity as a film critic or tea-leaf reader-"How should Ted James know what makes a great movie?"-and cautions that "the film industry is among the most difficult to forecast. We analysts just have to have the courage of our convictions and hope we're right 51% of the time." In their executive offices on Dopey Drive, the Disney people are hoping that Ted James is right only...
...their importance;" they were rapidly giving way to mere Pierian organizations-The Crimson, for one, which underwent in great boom in the 1950's. This period saw the birth of "diversity," a phrase that replaced "exclusively" on the tongues of Harvard men. True, the diversity went only so far (leaf through a 1950s vintage Yearbook some time; a Black face appears every fifth or sixth page). Still, by 1961 diplomas carried situations in the vernacular and not the Latin. A sense of excellence, of self-satisfaction, and of confidence, dominate the reminiscences from this year in Lant's book: "Freshman...