Word: maye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe if COCA members would mention one word concerning the hypocrisy of trying to terrify Harvard students into thinking that they may have to fight in a war which, were it to actually occur, would almost certainly never involve them, I could have some respect for their strategy. Maybe if they would be as outspoken in their condemnation of human rights abuses perpetrated by the left as they are of those committed by the right, I could admire what they did last week. But they haven...
After the regulations were changed to require that entertainment be "directly related" to business activity, the national tax practice director for Touche Ross advised executives that "it may be necessary to schedule significant business meetings before or after [an event] to meet these requirements...
...would anyone who does not mind being tricked and teased by the architecture at almost every turn. The new building (paid for mainly by O.S.U. alumnus and Columbus-based retailer Leslie Wexner) may have been the perfect project for this hyperintellectualizing bad boy to prove himself on: it was conceived by the university as both a museum and a seedbed for avant-garde art, from Anselm Kiefer paintings to Pina Bausch performances to a new video installation that displays images from the building's surveillance cameras. Did the university want a fin-de-siecle monument to erudite monomania, inspired nervousness...
...next "signal" from the U.S. may be an agreement to pay compensation to survivors of those killed in the Iran Air passenger plane shot down in July 1988 by the U.S.S. Vincennes. The U.S. has already begun paying families of non-Iranian passengers, but compensation to Iranians, who account for most of the 290 people aboard, has been held up by a lawsuit the Tehran government is pursuing against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice...
...marked his previous career. The problems of crime, drugs, homelessness and substandard education cry out for solution or at least amelioration. The infrastructure is literally blowing up, with a seemingly endless series of water-main explosions. Especially worrying are Dinkins' close ties to powerful labor unions, some of which may clamor for pay increases just as the city grapples with a projected $1.3 billion budget deficit. Even some of Dinkins' backers have qualms about his ability to hold the unions in check. Says financier Felix Rohatyn, head of Dinkins' informal team of economic advisers: "He is so innately decent that...