Word: mix
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...much further. "As a kid I seldom lost at bridge. That's why I got the job," she says half jokingly. "It requires a knack for puzzle solving." Not to mention diplomacy and stamina. Quiggle works closely with the magazine's advertising staff to help coordinate the fast-moving mix of articles and ads that appears in TIME and its nine international editions...
Nunn's Senate tenure reflects an eclectic mix of interests. National security is his primary focus, of course, and the keys to his influence are knowledge, timing and as little partisanship as possible. "By the time he starts talking about a subject," says Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, "he knows more about it than anybody else." "His real genius," says Republican William Cohen of Maine, "is to wait for the right moment to come up with a solution after allowing the sides to play themselves...
Often the past business experience of students can be counted on to help carry the day's case study. The unwritten rule of B-School admissions requires two years of work experience before matriculation, and each first-year section contains a diverse mix of former managers, consultants and engineers...
...issue is developer Graham Gund's plan's to construct a six-story complex of retail shops and offices at the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Arrow St. While members of Gund's staff have said they are merely trying to construct a structure that will mix well architecturally with the neighborhood, residents have said the complex threatens the character of the neighborhood. And they have charged that the city's Planning Board has no jurisdiction over the the project, called Zero Arrow Street...
...credit is due: no other dramatic shows on TV deal with such relentlessly uncheery subject matter. Tour of Duty is the more conventional of the two, an L.A. Law-style mix of characters, subplots and issues that are introduced and neatly resolved by episode's end. The show's flaws are familiar: characters who are too simplistic (the hotdogging helicopter pilot, the streetwise black private), and plot twists that are too patly "illuminating." When a battle- fatigued soldier is sent back into combat before he is ready -- over the objections of his sergeant and a psychiatrist -- you can bet that...