Word: mull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ongoing FBI investigation at Cornell is one of 15, all involving a break into the Virginia-based GTE Telemail system. FBI spokesman James E. Mull said this week that the computer confiscation "was not part of a major crackdown," but merely an investigation requested by the communications service...
Another Cornell student, Nick Acker, said, "No one even suspected it was going on at Cornell." The raid, however, came as no surprise to the University administrators. Mull said, because they were probably informed of FBI plans beforehand...
Japanese negotiators can also confuse outsiders by lapsing into silence to mull a point. Western businessmen may then jump into that pool of silence, sometimes to their regret. Howard Van Zandt, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas who spent 17 years as ITT's top manager in Japan, recalls how the head of a Japanese firm did nothing when a contract was presented for his signature. Van Zandt's ITT boss then hastily sweetened the deal by $250,000. Says Van Zandt: "If he had waited a few more minutes, he would have saved...
...friend who had resigned as Deputy Foreign Secretary last year. It was equally clear that she did not favor Deputy Speaker Bernard Weatherill. The M.P.s, incensed that the Prime Minister was meddling in a decision that was theirs alone, chose Weatherill. Thatcher, however, had scant time to mull over the slight: she turned to preparing the Queen's speech, which will outline her new legislative program and be delivered this week. Britons will not get their respite from politics for some time...
...appreciation for aesthetics that makes Watson the finest of so many excellent golfers today, maybe a few too many of them towheads. "As Nicklaus says, 'There are better scorers today than ever before.' Not players, scorers," Watson notes. He leaves it to you to mull the distinction. "Nobody on tour today can play like Hogan or Snead," he says, "not even Nicklaus." There is nothing obvious to choose between any two of today's top 100 pros when you line them up at the practice tee, so it must be something inside that distinguishes a man "Something...