Word: lyle
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President Reagan will soon nominate two new members to this elite group and possibly change the course of monetary policy. Lyle Gramley resigned from the board last week to become chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association. In January Partee's term will expire, creating a second vacancy. When those two posts are filled, Reagan, who has already named Martin and Seger, will have picked a majority of the board. Since Federal Reserve governors serve 14- year terms, the board will bear the President's stamp long after he leaves office...
...health industry has been criticized for not supporting research. Now they're being criticized for doing it." DeVries has called for a national panel to review his research and study the attendant ethical and economic questions. The debate is sure to intensify. Last week Cardiac Surgeon Lyle Joyce, who worked with DeVries at the University of Utah and now heads a heart team at the Minneapolis Heart Institute, announced that he will apply to the Food and Drug Administration in March for approval to begin performing artificial heart implants. -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported by Barbara B. Dolan/Louisville
...last piece was a "tour de force." Called "Precipice," it was choreographed by Alvin Ailcy, with music by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays. The dance was inspired by the lives of certain stars of pop music, especially Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, who were driven to self-destruction at the peak of escalating careers, described in the program as "a ballet about loneliness where a hero finds himself at the edge of a precipice...
...game was winding down, the coach could look away from the field for a moment to the men on the sidelines. "Here was big, tough, mean, nasty, vicious Lyle Alzado with tears in his eyes," Flores said. "I had to turn away or I would have cried too." After 13 seasons on defensive lines all around the league, it had suddenly struck Alzado, 34, that he was a world champion. "It's the ultimate in sports," he said. "There's nowhere else to go. This might be my last game...
They may be the last real madmen as well. Lyle Nelson, 34, devotes himself to exasperating events that combine grueling cross-country races with marksmanship. Biathletes ski a demanding course, periodically halting to fire a .22-cal. rifle from 50 meters at small metal discs. Trying to steady on a target with a heart beating 200 times a minute from skiing is, says former U.S. Coach Art Stegen, "like a high jumper running a 5,000-meter race as an approach...