Word: parred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unholy liaison between foreign dollars and diplomacy began as a small, quiet meeting in the Oval Office. Standing before Bill Clinton on a September morning in 1995 were James Riady, the suave Chinese-Indonesian financier who was pushing to keep U.S. trade lines to China open; and Huang, networker par excellence, offering to raise money for the Democratic National Committee from Asian Americans he thought were good for $7 million...
...credits came from such "projects" as helping Maharishi set up his teacher-training programs. (Wonder how he earned the right to call himself "Doctor"? He earned his Ph.D. in a correspondence course in psychology and counseling offered by Columbia Pacific University in San Rafael, Calif.) He was a meditator par excellence, he recalls, and would hear angels singing and have "visuals." When Maharishi began promising that TM practitioners could learn to "fly," photos of Gray flying were posted in TM centers throughout the world. Gray now says the flying thing was a crock; what he was doing was more like...
BETHESDA, Maryland: With eight holes to play, the 1997 U.S. Open stood deadlocked among four players, all at a modest four under par. Three of them gave. Colin Montgomerie missed a five-footer at seventeen to drop to three under, then failed to birdie the par three 18th. Tom Lehman's approach shot to the 17th green bounced on the slope and rolled into the water, and Jeff Maggert simply disintegrated, three- and four-putting greens until he finished a distant fourth at one over par. The last man standing was Ernie Els, alone at four under after five straight...
Despite more stringent requirements elsewhere, Harvard language professors say they are not convinced that strengthening the language requirement here is the proper way to place the College on par with other Ivies...
Even at Harvard, no one expects every class to be stellar, and a few duds are just par for the course...though every dud next year will cost you about...