Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gods of Bureaucracy, perched on their Olympian mount of red brick and glass, are smiling these days: the green nectar of endowment booty and warming ambrosia of national attention have made their second year in the new Kennedy School of Government both successful and satisfying. And despite the administration's insistence that the school is entering a period of reevaluation and decelerated expansion, the mere mortal cannot help be awed by the ambitious plans for future growth. In fact, the maturation of the school is not only on the mortal's mind, but it dominates the conversation of the insiders...
...first in the ratings again, partly as a result of the team Backe put in. A new president will be hired, at least for a few years. Paley thought too much had been made of this particular Backe case. Said he with Olympian detachment: "It was just a reassessment of what's happening and who's going to be here. It wasn't anything...
...promoted his prime-time shows heavily during the 1976 Olympics, and the network grabbed the ratings lead in January 1977. ABC's profits before taxes jumped spectacularly, from $17 million in 1975 to $110 million in 1977. Silverman was hoping for a repeat of that Olympian performance this year. Says Charles Bachrach, senior vice president at the advertising firm of Ogilvy & Mather: "With a bit of decent programming and the expected push from the Olympics, Freddie might have made good on his goal of reaching No. 1 by this Christmas. But the way things look now, he doesn...
...Carbocraft's alignment would shift junior Matt Arrott out of stroke position, where he has been all season. Junior Olympian John MacEachern would move from his number seven seat to the stern...
Glen Cohen, the British Olympian running for Boston University, broke his own GBC record in the quarter mile, shaving half a second off with a 48.67, while teammates John Wilson, Mike Ferrari, Jeff Smith and Bob Danville won the two-mile, 600, 60-yd. dash and hurdles, respectively...