Word: prima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...level we understood that Terner was acting bad and he was not good for the Harvard image," another player said, adding that Terner" propagated the perception in the Harvard community that the Harvard tennis team is a bunch of prima donnas...
...abiding game of tennis. The imminent withdrawal of Bjorn Borg and Ivan Lendl--two of the game's reigning troika--from Wimbledon has confounded the complacent tennis establishment, Lendl and Borg's threatened decisions not to play in the game's most prestigious tournament highlight the damage single-minded prima donnas inflict on the sport's reputation. Formerly distinguished by its courtly respect for propriety and unwaivering adherence to time-cherishes customs, tennis now suffers from an image crisis...
Haig soon became indispensable. As my deputy after the first year, he disciplined my anarchic tendencies and established coherence in a National Security Council staff of talented prima donnas. He acted as my partner, strong in crises, decisive in judgment, skillful in bureaucratic infighting, indefatigable in his labors...
...Brigades documents and weapons and ten more Red Brigades members, including Giovanni Senzani, a former criminologist who became leader of the Brigades' Rome column. Less than two weeks later, after a bank robbery in Siena, police arrested two members of an ultramilitant Red Brigades splinter group called Prima Linea, or Front Line. Those arrests in turn led to the discovery of a secret Rome hideout, which, remarkably, was used as a medical facility where terrorists wounded in police shootouts could come for emergency care. Soon afterward, police discovered another rich lode of Prima Linea documents and photos...
...ruling issued in response to McDonald's motion--that the Court drop Dayan's case for lack of evidence, Curry sided strongly with the French entrepreneur. "Given the high level intrigue and high level entry within this major corporation that the Dayan suit provoked, I am satisfied that a prima facie case has been made. With the sanction of termination so extreme and heavy, the court should not deny the fullest range of testimony...