Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial support that accompanies their presence (Richard left his estate of 350 pounds to Harvard upon his death), he adds that these families gave a certain "tone" to the University. "President [Charles W.] Eliot [Class of 1857] always thought that it was important for young aristocrats to polish the others," Fleming says, though noting that such influence wore itself out by the 1940s...
...along contentedly almost since Edwardian times are merging or being snapped up by marauding U.S., Japanese or French financial institutions. Pinstripe City men who have known each other since Oxford or Cambridge days are rubbing shoulders with rough-and-tumble stock traders who sport little of the old-school polish but plenty of the street savvy that has suddenly become worth unheard-of six-figure salaries. Unable to contain the activity, the City is bursting at the seams, as rapidly expanding investment houses sprawl farther along the Thames into London's formerly dreary docklands...
Though a restoration of official diplomatic ties is unlikely in the near future, the Soviets' public overture suggests that they are eager to remove barriers to their eventual participation in Middle East peace negotiations. Western experts speculated that Moscow may be seeking to polish up its image before a possible U.S.-Soviet summit later this year. For his part, Prime Minister Peres was wary of overplaying the significance of the talks. "We regard this," Peres said, "as the minute start of a change...
...contrasting scenes that took place within miles of each other last week. In the cavernous Congress Hall of Warsaw's Palace of Culture, 1,776 delegates attending Poland's Tenth Communist Party Congress sang the Communist International. Then, as Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev settled into his chair, Polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski launched into a 4 1/2-hour report declaring that after the "tough ordeal" of the past five years, Poland's Communists are successfully pursuing the "line of socialist renewal...
...Urban hoped to undermine the credibility of the Reagan Administration, his plan backfired. Many Poles, who commonly refer to the President as "Uncle Reagan," directed their anger at the Jaruzelski regime. Solidarity Founder Lech Walesa told reporters that Urban's statements contradicted the Polish regime's previous accounts of the martial-law decision. At the time, Jaruzelski had claimed that military rule was a last-minute response to Solidarity provocation. But by admitting that plans for a crackdown were formulated as early as November, Walesa charged last week, Urban lent credence to the "Solidarity conviction that (martial law) was premeditated...