Word: prize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Mota was alone. The Boston Marathon Committee could have handed her the $45,000 first-place prize at around mile 10. She could have driven off in her new Mercedes at mile 20. She was the first woman. And she looked like the last woman on earth, surrounded by a horde of huffing and puffing...
After leaving Harvard, I visited Rhodesia and South Africa as a journalist and was thrown out of the latter country for interviewing Albert Luthuli, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who had been banned by the South African government. Then as now, the South African government was hell-bent on destroying every African leader who showed his head. The system there will not reform itself from within...
Harvard protesters have lost sight of the prize--divestment--and instead have been mesmerized by the University's picayune bureaucratic processes. The Committee on University Practices--a little activist group which proudly calls itself "Coup" much the same way Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt labelled himself "important"--displays this misguidedness in all its splendor. Last year Coup demanded that Harvard reduce the 50-year rule on its secret records. This year Coup held a contest to name Harvard's most "inaccessible administrator." If the University doesn't come around these radical activists may roll up their sleeves, put up their dukes...
...Friday, Federated finally announced a decision, and it was a surprise: Campeau won, but Macy came away with a consolation prize. The three companies signed an agreement in which Campeau will buy most of Federated for $6.6 billion and Macy will acquire the Bullock's and I. Magnin chains for $1.1 billion. Campeau plans to spin off parts of Federated. Filene's and Foley's, for example, have already been promised to May Department Stores. Retailing experts were relieved that the battle was over, but not altogether pleased with the outcome. Said Walter Loeb, an analyst at the investment firm...
Mutter and Mullova are just two of the many women violinists of talent and temperament now gracing the world's stages. Korean-born Kyung-Wha Chung, 40, shared first prize in the Leventritt Competition with Pinchas Zukerman in 1967, and has since established herself as a major artist on the strength of her burnished tone and fiery passagework. Chung is a performer of great interpretative range and insight who can light up the night with a blazing Tchaikovsky concerto, probe the intimate, sorrowing mysteries of Alban Berg's twelve-tone essay in the form, or tackle Sir Edward Elgar...