Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With impeccable grooming and a smile that Miss Americas sweat to learn, Maureen ("Mo") Dean, wife of Watergate Star Witness John Dean, set the precedent for spousal demeanor at Senate hearings. She now capitalizes on her Washington years with a novel about politics and bedfellows. Dean writes about sex in the White House and sex on the presidential yacht. Her version of John Kennedy gives new meaning to the Bay of Pigs affair, as the randy Commander in Chief leaves his lover mad and languishing in a Swiss sanatorium. Elsewhere in this view of Washington below the Beltway...
Keller, a first-year Dodge City Community College transfer student, will miss the rest of the first semester but will be able to go back to school in six weeks...
...Neil Phillips might just be a little too good of an athlete for his own well-being. As his friends in Kirkland talked of the upcoming football season, Phillips began to miss football, and memories of that last high school game resurfaced...
...alone. Some targets were Koch's closest friends -- notably Donald Manes, president of the borough of Queens, who killed himself last year as the net tightened around him, and Cultural Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson, Koch's ever present companion during his first race for mayor in 1977. The former Miss America faces trial for bribing a judge to reduce the divorce settlement of her lover Carl Capasso, a rich sewer contractor now serving four years in prison for income tax evasion...
...because they are in short supply. In the University of California system, for example, only 1.7% of tenured faculty are black, 2.5% Hispanic and 10.1% female. Says Duncan Rice, N.Y.U.'s dean of the faculty of arts and sciences: "My department chairmen are aware that they had better never miss an opportunity to bring on a highly qualified minority or woman." Black Historian David L. Lewis, recruited to Rutgers, was courted by schools in the South, Midwest and East before he quit the University of California at San Diego for a heavy salary, a light teaching load and a budget...