Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others see less calculation behind Peking's moves. "The Deng style of decision making is very easygoing," says Andrew Nathan, a China expert at Columbia University. "To use a metaphor from pool, he takes a shot at the setup and sees where the balls go." Peking may have quieted the restive students for a while. But it is probably only a matter of time before, once again, the dragon of democracy pokes its head through Deng's window...
...created by a chef who was flown to the Louvre to study the original. Khashoggi's parties also take place in his 30,000-sq.-ft. quarters incorporating the 46th and 47th floors of the Olympic Towers in Manhattan. Created out of 16 separate apartments, the abode has a pool that overlooks the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral. What will the host wear to his soiree? At Marbella there is a small warehouse, called the Central European Distribution Center, for Khashoggi's clothes. More than 1,000 handmade suits, encased in plastic and ranging from size...
...each morning he has walked some 50 yards from his house to a two-room cottage that serves as his study. He emerges around 1 for lunch and then disappears until 4:30 in the afternoon, when it is time for a swim in his pool or, if the weather has turned chilly, for a six-mile walk. He spends evenings listening to classical music and reading...
...They feel more comfortable with a bigger pool of people," said Undergraduate Council Chairman Richard S. Eisert '88, one of two students who served on the drafting committee...
...three explosions. "A ball of fire came through," said Croupier Susano Gonzalez Perez. "It blew open the door. People were trampled." Some raced toward the picture windows, grabbed chairs and hurled them through the thick plate glass, then jumped 30 ft. to the ground. Bathers near the pool where other survivors landed fled from the spray of shards. Many huddling near the casino's closed door, apparently unable to pry it open, died of smoke inhalation. Others farther inside perished immediately; rescue workers found their charred corpses sitting upright in chairs around the blackjack tables. The terror...