Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slow start--Harvard won the football game, 35-21. But for most of the capacity crowd of 10,500, the football game was secondary. It was a new stadium, a new season and a beautiful day. (Clockwise from top left) Sporting his blue and yellow striped football lie. New York Mayor EDWARD I. KOCK congratulated Wien and Columbia on the stadium's $7 million price tag. "If we had done it, it would have cost $107 million." Koch said. The mayor also engaged in some historiography. We're going to beat the hell out of them he prophesied...
...series of late injuries and personnel problems has left gaping holes in the Crimson's depth chart and many of the squad's hopes now lie in the hands of inexperience...
...economic consultant for the past 38 years, I am appalled at the damage my peers have done with their erroneous predictions [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Aug. 27]. The blame must lie with the schools of business administration and their brash M.B.A.s. Their ardent embrace of econometrics and the computer has caused them to abandon the philosophical concepts of economics. Business schools should re-examine their precepts before the dismal science disappears...
...crystal chandeliers give it an air of grandeur, a reflection of the days when it was the seat of the Earl De La Warr. In the well-kept gardens behind the house, Indian women in brilliant saris float on the arms of their husbands. The verdant meadows of Cambridgeshire lie serenely in the distance. To the casual observer, this stately home could be an elegant British country hotel. For the women and their husbands, however, it is a last resort...
...case encapsulates all the ambiguities more dramatically than that of the late Mario and Elsa Rios, a Los Angeles couple whose orphaned embryos now lie in a freezer in Melbourne, Australia. Doctors there had removed several of Mrs. Rios' eggs in 1981, then fertilized them with sperm from an anonymous donor. Some were implanted in Mrs. Rios, and the remaining two were frozen. "You must keep them for me," she said. The implant failed, and the couple later died in a plane crash in Chile. Australian laws grant no "rights" to the two frozen embryos, but though local officials...