Word: petered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are several errors in the story on American Indian energy development [Aug. 20]. The photograph accompanying the piece was not of Peter MacDonald, Council of Energy Resource Tribes chairman, and CERT's chief economist, Ahmed Kooros, but MacDonald and CERT's executive director, Edward Gabriel. Our name is the Council of Energy Resource Tribes, not Resources...
...theft is involved. Reports of criminal misuse of funds are almost nonexistent. What is at stake is the robbing of Peter to pay Paul, all within an academic context. Colleges are valuable, expensive and above all nonprofit institutions. Federal grants given for research have often been regarded as a general fund that can justifiably be used for allied but unauthorized expenses. University administrators, in fact, say that what is needed now, given the economic pinch, is more accounting flexibility rather than less...
NONFICTION: Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙ I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann & Samuel Charters ∙ The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙ The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels ∙ The White Album, Joan Didion ∙ When Memory Comes, Saul Friedlander
Screenplay by Frank Yablans, Ted Kotcheff and Peter Gent...
Based on former Footballer Peter Gent's good novel, the film shows this sadomasochistic world through the eyes of Phillip Elliott (Nick Nolte), a pass catcher with good hands and, in the view of the coaches and owners, a bad attitude. Elliott's insouciance springs from a developing conviction that he and his mates are exploited (if well-paid) field hands, risking their lives, or anyway their health, to assuage their owner's ego and their coach's desire to turn them into ciphers...