Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early 1960s first awakened his political consciousness, he was no campus activist during his four years as an indifferent student at the University of Delaware. In fact, he now acknowledges that he participated in desegregation demonstrations "only in a very minor sense": black lifeguards at the swimming pool where he worked during the summer invited him to join in some picketing in Wilmington. Later, as a law student at Syracuse University, Biden avoided antiwar protests...
...somewhat less lovingly about his second, from whom he was divorced in the '50s. Right now he is concentrating on No. 3, the bubbly Joy Valderrama, 55, whom he married when he was a mere 96. In Florida, they are usually on the golf course or by a pool during the day and watch television at night. One of his favorite programs is The Newlywed Game, which, he says, gives him an insight into the lives of working-class Americans. He has a fond spot for his fruit trees -- grapefruit, orange and papaya -- and talks to them...
...shocks, which had sent prices zooming out of control by 1979. G. William Miller, who had served only 17 months as Fed chief, was proving ineffective against the growing crisis. Suddenly one day in July, while Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon was cooling off in his backyard pool, he got an urgent phone call from President Jimmy Carter, who wanted suggestions for a new Fed boss. "Paul Volcker," Solomon replied with little hesitation. "Who's that?" Carter asked, not recognizing the name of the head of the Fed's New York branch...
...letter, Spence wrote that the searchcommittee assembled a pool of 41 potentialcandidates and ultimately recommended sixindividuals, four from within the University andtwo outsiders. The committee then singled outthree people as the best prospects but sent allsix names to Spence...
...results were inconclusive," says Michael L. Goldenberg '88, a member of the Academic Committee that sponsored the referendum vote. The vote was 49 percent in favor of earlier exams, and 48 percent against earlier exams, from a pool of approximately 40 percent of the college, according...