Word: oed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Jackson negotiated the release of Lieut. Robert O. Goodman Jr. from a Syrian prison in 1983, The New York Times attributed it to "Syria's desires to further antagonize the Reagan Administration by going over its head with a gesture to the American people...
...Clarence O. "Neil" Brown III '74, one of West'scollege friends who now lives in New York, saysWest appeals to all people, not justintellectuals. "Guys with mohawks and tattoos willstop and congratulate and thank him for the workhe's done," Brown says...
...chosen to live in London with her husband, director Pat O'Connor, raising their two sons. She had thought she could maintain her formerly bustling career, which included an Academy Award-nominated role in Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money. But "if you're not available in the U.S., you're just not seen," she says. And, besides, "I've never been a person to make sure I'm seen." She worked intermittently, of course, but became increasingly aware that "the phone hasn't rung and that you're not being offered things, and when...
...After 4 o'clock, the trading werewolves come out, and the propensity to be picked off is way too great for all but the most daring. How can I be so sure? Because for years I have traded after hours using an Instinet machine. That system matches up institutional buyers and sellers when the formal exchanges are closed. Now, when it comes to trading I try to be a true boy scout. But I cannot tell you how often I have seen remarkably prescient buying and clairvoyant selling in after-hours trading. Stocks jangle up and down...
...great moment for show-biz talent. Not only did it finally bring Gloria Estefan to the White House to discuss gun control--which will no doubt encourage Brandy to attend some House Judiciary meetings--but it also forced other celebrities to tell us their political opinions. Rosie O'Donnell, who does ads for the rifle-selling K Mart chain, yelled at Tom Selleck for doing an ad for the N.R.A. The next week O'Donnell allegedly asked guest Bernadette Peters, who was going to sing on Rosie's show, to change some lyrics to a song from Annie Get Your...