Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lime Street. In it she will play the daughter of Robert Wagner, an insurance investigator and horse breeder who is independently wealthy (Isn't he always?). Samantha's dad Arthur says he gave the parental thumbs-up after meeting Wagner and finding him to be "a family man, pleasant and low key." In fact, says Dad, Los Angeles was not at all what you might expect: "Everyone we met there was very down-to- earth, very reasonable, very real." Just regular folks like the rest of her grownup friends...
Today and tomorrow, the Crimson finishes what shapes up as another pleasant formality competing in the National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association (NISRA) Championships...
Getting "lotteried" out of any course is never a pleasant situation. A recent editorial in this space called for the University to meet the need for section leaders in oversubscribed courses, so that fewer students would be excluded. However, an interim, and perhaps a permanent, solution to this problem would be to standardize methods of lotterying courses, so that students would have a better idea, sooner, of their chances of admission, and could plan accordingly...
...Molyakov, deputy chief of the Department of International Organizations, taunted me. The best medicine for seasickness was to toss down "200 grams" of vodka, he said, urging me to accompany him to the bar. His suggestion made me feel even sicker, but I thought perhaps it would be more pleasant to die in the bar than on my bunk...
Serving on boards of directors at some companies was once a pleasant, undemanding hobby for business biggies. The directorships offered short hours, fine camaraderie, handsome pay and hardly any tough decisions. "Sitting on a board as little as 15 years ago was almost like going to a men's club," says Arjay Miller, former president of Ford and the current director of nine companies. "The chairman put his buddies on the board...