Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...score was 3-3, and the Mets' master ofno-decisions, Darling, was off the hook. Duringthe season, he had 13 decisionless starts and a15-6 record. He had pitched in two World Seriesgames with a 1-1 record, but he was out of thisone in the fourth inning after giving up three RedSox runs in the second...
...suit also contains allegations that the School and its dean, John J. MacArthur, condoned sexual harassment of womenstudents and faculty, as well as setting quotasfor the admission of women to the Master ofBusiness Administration Program...
Since getting her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1980, Patricia Lara, a citizen of Colombia and a reporter for her country's leading newspaper, El Tiempo, has returned often to the U.S. Last week she was headed for her alma mater to attend an awards dinner. Instead she landed in a New York City jail cell, where she was held for five days before being put on a plane and sent back to Bogota. Lara, 35, had been detained upon arrival at New York's Kennedy Airport by immigration officials who discovered that...
McCloy began as a poor boy from Philadelphia and rose to head the World Bank. He was a master at bringing consensus out of chaos, sometimes with grim results. The decision not to warn Japan about the atom bomb, for example, was made without a full discussion of the consequences. McCloy, then Assistant Secretary of War, shaped a vague "declaration" to Japan that was agreeable to other U.S. officials but that did nothing to avert the use of the Bomb. Bohlen, a career man in the Foreign Service, was instrumental in getting the views of his lifelong friend and fellow...
...Gaudin, a leader of the majority, grumbled, "The more Mitterrand says no, the more likely it is yes." A more probable assessment was offered by Jean-Jack Queyranne of the President's Socialist Party: "Mitterrand's brief remark served as a pointed reminder that he is still President -- and master of the game...