Word: meres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although fifth, Harvard was a mere five strokes behind second-place Princeton. Yale outdistanced the competition last season by 16 swings to capture its third Ivy title in the past five years...
Monday morning would come and Wall Street would be desolate, the first casualty of the commuter strike. Simultaneous strikes in other cities would paralyze the nation. Maybe even the world. All because the Eastern machinists wouldn't take a mere 50 percent pay cut. The nerve of them...
...more ingenious was the way House Speaker Jim Wright skirted the already generous congressional ceiling on outside income. Not content with mere honorariums, Wright arranged an unusual sweetheart deal: a supporter published one of Wright's books, sold most of the copies in bulk to groups like the Teamsters, and then handed over 55% of the proceeds (nearly $60,000) to the Speaker as royalties. This daisy chain was probably legal, but clearly unsavory. It is among a welter of charges against Wright contained in a voluminous report now being studied by the House Ethics Committee. Few expect more than...
Gilliam, who learned from his days with Monty Python to be truculent and never truckle, had earlier fought Universal Pictures when it was reluctant to release his film Brazil -- a masterpiece at a mere $15 million. This time he would run up a higher tab -- say, $17 million to $20 million over budget -- and into bigger trouble. David Puttnam, Munchausen's Hollywood sponsor, soon departed as boss of Columbia. Film Finances Inc., which stepped in to supervise the picture, threatened to fire Gilliam if he didn't scale back on the spiraling costs. A producer sued Columbia, claiming that five...
Gesell must guard against such mistakes in the future. In addition, he must carefully delineate between true national security interests and mere anxiety from the intelligence community. A few overzealous government agents unnecessarily concerned with potential embarrassment should not allow Ollie North to escape...