Word: posing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even sitting down in a chair requires careful planning. The chair should be moved one inch to establish territory and slid into from front to back. The savvy executive can then strike the ultimate power pose by turning slightly and planting an elbow on the armrest...
...hopes that Bulliet has an extremely active imagination. If not, if the book's plot has some basis in fact, then the machinations of national intelligence communities pose a serious threat to the precariously perched Persian Gulf regimes. Indeed, Bulliet says in the book's jacket notes, "At the present time, the likelihood of a major crisis developing in the Gulf region is very high...
...that gave us the tremendous power of the atom. Yet it has been several years since the flood of writing and protest began, and the nuclear threat is still very much with us. Can we ever get rid of the bombs, or at least of the imminent threat they pose? Proposals for world government have resurfaced lately as a possible answer, but, given the success of the League of Nations and the United Nations and the current state of international relations, a move towards any such world organization seems very unlikely. Is there, then, any possible path by which...
...riding a downtown subway in Manhattan at 3 a.m. on Christmas night when a photographer asked her to pose for a picture. Thus began the modeling career of Lisa Sliwa, national director of the Guardian Angels civilian vigilante group and wife of Angels Founder Curtis Sliwa, 30. Newly signed by the Zoli agency, the Chicago-bred, 5-ft. 9-in., 125-Ib. brunette, who says she is 25, still plans to spend her nights riding the city's trains with her husband and thinks her new occupation can help the old. "Most women believe modeling is more feminine than...
...League's perennial doormats, bathmats and placemats, Cornell, couldn't pose a semblance of a challenge in yesterday's Soldiers Field showdown. And Harvard (8-1 overall, 3-0 Ivy) couldn't help but score its most goals of the year in an 18-5 Ivy League...