Word: phillip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traded at a 50-year low of 80.3? against the U.S. dollar as recently as a month ago. But that does not seem to deter some savers who say that the risk of a currency decline is outweighed by the high interest rates they receive. Says Detroit Advertising Salesman Phillip Marien, who has a Canadian passbook account: "I don't worry too much about a currency devaluation. You can take money out at any time without a penalty...
ROLL CALL, 7:07 a.m. The Hill Street precinct comes to disorder. Detectives, patrolmen and patrolwomen, officers and desk jockeys shuffle through the squad room, find seats, swallow some coffee and try to ignore the day ahead. Sergeant Phillip Freemason Esterhaus (Michael Conrad), a mountain of meat and gristle with a smile that could crack ice, is briefing his charges on the new day's agenda. "I'd like to interject a personal observation," he announces. "It seems that we've reached a new low, graffiti-wise, in both the men's and women...
...also touches directly on the question of when life begins, a central issue in the debate over abortion. Says Dr. Leonie Watson, a pro-life advocate in San Francisco: "If they can do surgery on a fetus, then it is in fact a baby." Calling that a "phony argument," Phillip Stubblefield, a gynecologist at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, submits that a fetus is only a baby if it can live outside the womb. Says he: "Whether or not the fetus is viable is a biological phenomenon that has to do with the maturity of the fetus." One thing...
Born in Hungary on May 21, 1902. Breuer studied in and later taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. He came to the United States in 1937 to teach at Harvard, where he instructed such now-famous architects as Phillip Johnson, I.M. Pel and Edward Larrabe Barnes...
That night, more than 2000 students gathered in the Yard to hear Phillip A. Stone '62--dressed in a toga, black cape, and crowned by a laurel wreath--demand that "our diplomas be in the language which many admire although few are able to read." One protester carried a sign which warned: "No Latin, No Alumni Money...