Word: movers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside world, Bok is visible indeed. He regularly journeys to Washington to testify before congressional committees and to discuss trends in higher education with other policymakers. He has spent the last year as honorary chairman of the American Council on Education, a political lobbying group. He was a prime mover behind a much publicized March conference between University presidents and industry leaders to iron out a proper relationship between and industry--authored Most recently he has released a book scrutinizing the role of universities in contemporary society reviews of which are beginning to roll...
...uninitiated, full-scale coal-mining is an incredible sight. Two hundred feet below where the hillside was a few years ago, dump trucks bigger than houses haul 175-ton loads of rock. The Martiki mining operation is centered around the "Mountain Mover," a power shovel about the size of a small airplane hanger. The shovel's huge bucket--which can easily hold a pickup truck--takes 76-cubic-foot bites out of the mountain 24 hours...
Money is the prime mover for the NFL, where the astroturf is clearly only the second most important green element. The Super Bowl provides the league with ten million dollars from gate receipts and the sale of broadcast rights...
that night at about the same time, but no one at the carnival has heard of it yet. This is a time for play?for joyriding in the bumper cars or knocking about in the People Mover. The cool air roars with the Beatles' You're Gonna Lose That Girl. Parents force smiles going down the three-story Superslide, while their kids take the thrill in stride. Down on the field, boys kick a soccer ball in what is left of the light...
...single, powerful White House Chief of Staff. Meese's choice of aides often has been questionable, and though he had a reputation for a time as Reagan's "prime minister," White House insiders insist they cannot think of a single policy decision on which he has been the prime mover. In part, they say that is because he so rarely indicates his own position when outlining policy choices for Reagan...