Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to Limerick Judge Isaac Asimov's comment that "women tend to be dirtier but less clever than men" [April 24], I offer the following observation: The ladies endeavored with zest, The limerick prize to contest
...behind. He tried a tasteless crack about a William Safire column "saying that Bob Strauss has been inflation czar for three days and nothing was any cheaper. Bob said that wasn't true," reported Powell, who went on to quote Strauss as asking: "What about the Pulitzer Prize?" (Safire had just won one.) "I like that, Jody," one listener shot back, and Powell riposted bitterly: "Well, then, that's the first thing this Administration has done that you've liked." Powell also mock apologized for attacking what he called "the imperial press," but said it so sarcastically...
...three boats sank before the race began, and most others toppled over before making it to the finish line. First prize--a case of Miller beer--went to two Currier House alumni, Frank M. Kulash '76 and David F. Wilson '75, whose raft crossed the finish line last...
Charles Cahn '77, a first-year student at Harvard's graduate school in economics, said he was "satisfied" with the teaching. He added that the annual $5000 prize for instruction, set up three years ago by John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, had done much to "recognize good teaching in the department." Graduate students sit on the committee to choose the preferred teacher each year...
...hardly expected that he would come away with an all-expenses-paid vacation to Hawaii. Overcrowded on weekdays and underused on weekends, Sunrise is solving its problem in true Las Vegas fashion: a lottery for all those who agree to enter the hospital on weekends, with a weekly prize of a $4,000 vacation. Since the game was started 14 months ago, admissions have jumped by 60%, to about 85 each weekend. The hospital estimates that this brings a $2.5 million increase in gross revenue and enables it to keep its rates about 5% lower than they would otherwise...